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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Asimov wrote fantasy himself; and he was a fan of LOTR. He enjoyed Star Wars, which he seems to have considered to be fantasy, and fun; but disparaged Close Encounters because he thought the science was ludicrous.
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For me, it's not Fantasy I object to per se, but the increasing assumption that the two genres are in fact one. An analogous example to clarify:
French and Italian are very closely related, Hindi and Urdu
much more so, but when I want to buy books in those languages, I find each of them in their own category - no French in the Italian section, no Hindi in the Urdu.
In contrast, trying to find science fiction devoid of fantasy is a tedious and time-consuming process because apparently if one enjoys reading fiction solidly based on science, one must therefore also enjoy interminable sagas of wizards, witches, elves and mages. All set on other planets, which apparently makes them SF.