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Originally Posted by fjtorres
In the romance field there is an entire subgenre dedicated to stories set in SF (and fantasy) settings; future cities, spaceships, lost colonies, whatever. The stories are correctly flagged as paranormal romance because the story is about the relationships, not the SF elements.
The same applies to mysteries in SF settings.
Crossovers can happen but they are rare. And hard to really pull off.
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I would say that these kinds of books are both SF and (paranormal) romance, or both SF and mysteries. Just like a book can be both a mystery and a historical novel, or both a romance and a historical novel. A book can belong to several genres.
"No artificial shortages!" to quote a character in a SF/romance/comedy of errors book by one of my favourite authors :-)