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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you take the view that "if science can't currently do it, then it's fantasy", the range of "SF" would be extremely narrow. The "Pern" series is always categorised as SF. Don't take my word for it - look it up elsewhere.
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I'm quite happy to take McCaffrey's word for it - she always considered herself to be writing SF, and it's well and truly within the (broad) bounds of the genre. But I've also got no problem with people considering it science fantasy, and it follows a lot of the tropes of the fantasy genre. There's a reason we use the umbrella terms F/SF or speculative fiction; the boundaries are very, very unclear.