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Originally Posted by Quoth
Genres are tricky. SF and Fantasy have a spectrum. Some are clearly SF and some clearly Fantasy, but Dune and Pern series are both published and recognised as SF, yet are much closer to non-SF Fantasy. It seems that if there is space travel, it's SF. Pern has implied space travel.
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As far as I remember from reading the Pern stories, the Dawn Sisters were the 3 spaceships that had brought humans to Pern. AFAIR, one was called the Yokohama and it's engine was used to modify the Red Star's orbit to eliminate the threat of thread.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also a novel can be an SF or Fantasy setting and really be a Western, Romance, Spy, Adventure, Detective, mystery, Robinsonade, Pirates or Mstaken Identity / Swap.
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The boundaries between genre have blurred a lot recently. Some I've read have been well done and very enjoyable while others qualified as 10 finger exercises with a distinct possibility of being AI generated.
My wife complained about one recent book she DNFed that was basically a string of tropes strung together with excessive adjectives and adverbs while attempting to fit into multiple genres. A human/alien romance set in space with a side dish of murder mystery and a gravy of Lovecraftian Elder Gods. The science fiction portion was risible at best featuring the type of "science" that was left behind in the early 1930s pulp fiction (my opinion after reading the first two chapters which was all my weak stomach could take).