[pegasi&prefects]

I understand how you feel, in a way, fjtorres. I was raised on hard SF. I also remember what felt like to do a search for fantasy on my library ebook catalogue and for the first time get nothing but paranormal romance. But I agree with DiapDealer.

A genre isn't about core values and rules; there has to be room for change, for expansion, even for meaning drift. The common sense meaning of SF, away from hard core fandom, certainly has room for multigenre works with emphases other than the tech and world building. If it's set in the future, well, then, it goes on the SF shelf, and that's okay.

And, you know, in comparison to the books I read as a teenager, there's actually a chance of well developed female characters who seem like actual women and not fantasies from a man locked in a closet all his life, these days. And characters of colour, and ones who aren't cishet. There is definitely a very bright side to the Pink SF that Day's commenters deride (while talking up their own "unashamedly White Nationalist" soon-to-be blockbuster Blue SF.)

Variety is good. It might make it a little harder to find what you want, but this isn't a zero sum game.