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Originally Posted by DrNefario
For the purpose of these statistics, I imagine what makes something SF is what the publisher prints on the back near the price and barcode.
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That about sums it up, I reckon. I'm constantly amazed at the quantity of stuff I would regard as fantasy or something else, being classified as SF.
I'm currently on a Stephen Baxter binge. He writes SF. I tend to read "older" writers. I like Orson Scott Card sometimes, but his stuff strays over to fantasy, somewhat. I love Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, John Brunner, the list goes on, and I haven't even come close to reading all the good stuff out there. I read the galaxy's edge mag online at times and have had a collection of Baen Books but so far haven't really got into them much.
Sci-fi is what you expect. I got into scifi at a time when movies like The Blob and suchlike were the go. I didn't like them much but found the concepts interesting, so imagine my delight when I found that scifi was much more than that. And thats what I expect. Fairies? Princes, wizards and warlocks? Nope. They have their place, but not in scifi.
Did I mention I love Stephen Baxter?