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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I have read a Handmaidens Tale and fail to see how it could be called Sci Fi
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It takes place in the future and imagines a future society and culture (based on an extrapolation of existing trends in current society and culture). Like, say, "Logan's Run" or "Stand on Zanzibar."
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Originally Posted by kennyc
"Alternative history" is the least sf-like to me.  |
Usually to me, too, although I wouldn't call this alternative history.