Thread: Is SF dying?
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Old 01-30-2015, 11:56 PM   #72
Rizla
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
A story about a detective investigating a rape or a murder in the 22nd century is not by itself SF. If the detective is a PSI (The Demolished Man) or an Android (CAVES OF STEEL) then it is SF.
The detective in The Caves of Steel is human. So it's not sci-fi? It's a detective story incidentally set in a world with robots? The same with the Naked Sun.

And what about Nalini Singh? I suppose that would be pigeon-holed as paranormal romance, mainly cos it's romance oriented and set in a world significantly not like the real world.
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