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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I understand. And I can't say much without having read that particular book. I was just saying a few fantastical elements don't necessarily make a book fantasy.
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I can't recall it's name now but I read a mystery that took place in the present that had flashbacks to the civil war. No characters in the book moved back and forth in time but the reader certainly did. Does that make it science fiction?
What about a book like "Pillars of the Earth"? It ends about 80 or 90 years after it begins and yet the audiobook is 41 hours long. That's moving through time very quickly? Science fiction? Fantasy?
Actually I think there's something to be said for both sides of this discussion. "Brave New World" and "1984" both contain some elements of science fiction. But most people don't think of them as science fiction and I think that's what wins the argument.
Barry