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Originally Posted by issybird
My own impression is that while there might have been SF nominations each month we haven't had one as a selection - I don't think Dandelion Wine, for example, qualifies even though Bradbury is known for SF.[...]
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Stephen Fry's
Making History falls under the sci-fi banner ... sort of, at least enough for Amazon etc. to put it there*. And now Kazuo Ishiguro's
Never Let Me Go falls there too. Neither book may be a sci-fi enthusiasts idea of classic science fiction, but at least by commercial standards they are science fiction.
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Originally Posted by issybird
[...] Is Brave New World, for example, SF? I came close this month to nominating a dystopian book I quite liked back in the day which I suppose qualifies as SF, Ira Levin's This Perfect Day. But I knew the technology would be terribly dated, which might have been funny or might have been stupid. Or both.
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Yes,
Brave New World is science fiction - again, Amazon etc. show it under this category*. It is also literature. And now it can also be considered a classic.
I can barely remember
This Perfect Day. It would be interesting to see how it has held up.
* I'm not declaring Amazon the final arbiter, but when it matches my own opinion it seems a useful reference. 