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Old 01-24-2018, 10:09 PM   #187
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Even in the 1990s our high school English teachers would bend themselves into knots attempting to make up reasons why 1984 and A Brave New World aren't science fiction and The Picture of Dorian Gray and 100 Years of Solitude (which features an actual flying carpet) aren't fantasy.

Because those are good books, and thus clearly couldn't be in those genres.
I've read 1984, Brave New World, and Dorian Gray, and I'd never consider any of them science fiction. They're general fiction.
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