Thread: What Genre of Fiction do you read most often?
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Old 09-17-2014, 12:20 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by Dazrin View Post
I think it really depends on the author and book. Quite a few have zombies, vampires or other "fantasy" monsters in them. Others have magicians/magic of some form. Sometimes "explained" by the use of some previously unknown substance, sometimes not. Many just have much more advanced steam powered technology and lots of big trains and airships. Because of the variation I tend to lump it under "speculative fiction" rather than calling it specifically SF or F. I haven't read a lot of it either way though, just 8 books over the last 3+ years.

Agreed. Steampunk is so difficult to place in a certain genre because of how the authors treat it. Writers like George Mann and Cherie Priest fall somewhere into the fantasy/adventure/Lovecraftian horror side of things, whereas I dare anyone to suggest that Schroeder's Vigra series is anything but extremely hard science fiction/steampunk.
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