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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Read, or seen/heard? If the latter, I'll assume that it's because you just don't get out much any more. The fans I run into still love to beat each other soundly about the head and shoulders over sub-classification squabbles. 
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We're arguing? Who knew? I thought we were just chatting, in the context of the OP's question.
Strewth, I don't care enough to argue.
I'd argue, however, (ha, gotcha), that Dune, if the "space travel" were accomplished by any other means than spaceships, falls into the category of fantasy, rather than Sci-Fi. Sure, the KH takes a serum/potion (magic!!!) and then transcends time/space/yadda, but...what's more magical than that? He most
certainly has the traditional Hero's Journey. Even the Guild Navigators are magic, rather than scientific.
But, were Frank alive, I know he'd object
vociferously. (As did the late great Ann McCaffrey, when people called Pern, et al, S-Fantasy rather than Science Fiction.)
Hitch