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Originally Posted by NatCh
I've felt for a long time that SF and Fantasy aren't really very good genre distinctions (I know: all the genres are arbitrary at some level). I read SF that's mystery, adventure, occasionally even romance. I think Fantasy tends mostly to the Quest sub-genre, but it branches a bit as well.
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Yes, I think the Quest is the dominant form. Fortunately, it's not the only one.
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But at the same time, if they put all the mysteries that had SF elements in with the mysteries, I'd have a harder time finding them -- for instance, Michael Creighton's books are in Fiction & Literature half the time, and I would mostly consider them to be SF, but they've gotten popular, so they must be F&L, right? 
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Welcome to Publishing. A fair bit of stuff is arguably SF, but marketed without that label, as the publisher thinks it has a wider audience, and calling it SF would get it shelved where the broader audience wouldn't see it.
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Man I'm in a cynical mood today: I just realized I've used the eyeroller smilie in almost every post!
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You aren't a cynic. You're a
realist.
(A cynic is sometimes defined as an optimist who has run into contact with reality.)
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Dennis