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Originally Posted by shalym
I am, however, interested in the statement that I emphasized above. Have you ever found a general book store that separated the Fantasy from the Science Fiction? (I'm not talking about specialized stores like Baen)
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It's not unknown but they just use whatever classification the publisher put on it.
Amazon could do that for big publishers but small and self-published books are often tagged as both SF AND Fantasy not to speak of the folk to whom Fantasy mean erotica.
And the Usenet rec.arts.sf.written FAQ has a reminder "If you think you can accurately split SF from Fantasy you haven't thought properly"
Baen and others have published "fantasy without magic" for example