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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
The science fiction section in my Calibre library is getting just big enough that it'd be a help to split it up a bit.
So I've been going through my books and checking how the books are listed on goodreads and I realized that I'm not really sure how to define these, and there's a lot of overlap (e.g. post-apocalypse and dystopian, or military sci-fi and alien invasion). Also the people who add genres on Goodreads slapping 'space opera' on pretty much everything.
Is this kind of a pointless endeavor?
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I'm with Darzin, a SMALL list that separates really big sets is probably the best way to go. The Library of Congress (and most local libraries) don't do classify via sub-genre. The Wikipedia category list might be useful to you in narrowing what you think you'd want to separate out.
I would use:
- Military Sci-Fi
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Ecofiction (this one is probably unique to a small group, but there has been a lot more stuff about what happens when/if/how man manages to kill the planet)
I don't have enough of anything in a -punk genre to have any of those categories, but I am sure some might.