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Just found a place that has "Science Fiction and Fantasy", and "Sword and Sorcery" genres. WTF?? Why bother to have two separate categories if there's no meaningful separation? "Science Fiction" IS NOT the same thing as "Fantasy", and it is annoying as heck to have to dig through the one to find the other!
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"Fantasy" is not-real, by definition. "Science" is real, by definition. If I'm looking for something not-real then I am definitely, logically, absolutely NOT looking for something real, and vice versa. I will certainly allow that bad SF can be considered fantasy, but that's generally the author's fault not the genre. There's also stuff like Sword Art Online that certainly looks like fantasy, even though it is actually science fiction.
That said, as a buyer I can't use a label like "science fiction and fantasy" in any meaningful way. Lumping them together is simply being lazy and/or ignorant. They might as well be just saying, "Here's a book. You figure it out."
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Well, they might have a point. After all, you might need quite a bit of fantasy to believe that something was actually meant to be science fiction
Also, with 'alternative facts' being a thing nowadays, who knows what's 'real'Seriously though, personally I'd expect quite something different from the 'fantasy' genre than from the 'science fiction' genre. Science fiction being something that while it might seem like magic still being able to be described in some way by natural sciences (and often related to some 'tech stuff'), while fantasy being something that functions on a completely different level (and often related to some flashy 'magic stuff').
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