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Originally Posted by kokiangel
I hate the style of writing in first person and even worse, writing in first person while trying to be both main characters. First the author writes as the female character telling the story in present tense. The next chapter the author flips to telling the story from the male's point of view in first person, present tense.
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I love alternate point of views, both in first person and in tight third person. I really like seeing someone both from the inside and outside, seeing the contrast between how they see themselves and how others see them. In Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series, we follow Miles (in tight third person) through a bunch of books, and when we got to see other people's view of Miles, it was a delight -- especially in Mirror Dance, which does this really, really well.
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I think you misunderstand what I was asking. Specifically the SF element in Brave New World of genetic engineering which the whole world is based on. Today it is no longer science fiction, but possible and not just in theory. Granted, there hasn't been human clones so far as I know. That is not a technological barrier though, but a moral one.
Does that now mean that Brave New World is no longer classifiable as Science Fiction if it was published today? (Or for the snobbery kind, doesn't have any more SF elements in it?)
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In my opinion, something can be science fiction even if all the technology in the book is available when the book is written. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a good example -- there's no technology there which wasn't available when the book was written, but it's definitively speculation/fable about a potential future.