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Originally Posted by meeera
I'm not particularly impressed by the SF choices - Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheit 451, yes, but Dune over Hitchhiker's Guide?
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Dune is scifi, Hitchhiker is satire. It's no more scifi than Gulliver Travels and indeed I find Adams as great a satirist as Swift. Just because it's set in space and has aliens and spaceships doesn't make it scifi. Its outlandish concepts like the bistromatic engine may be great fun but are very unscientific. works well for the purpose of satire though...