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Re: Science Fiction, Sci-fi, and SF
Posted By: Issachar, on host 207.30.27.2
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001, at 07:57:42
In Reply To: Re: Science Fiction, Sci-fi, and SF posted by Faux Pas on Friday, February 16, 2001, at 06:43:45:

> > Or should it even be called Science Fiction? Isn't the real name Prophetic Fiction or something? Or did they just call it that in the 30s?
>
> I've always defined it as Fiction with a basis in Science. From there, you've got such different genres as Hard Science, Science Fantasy, Space Opera, and the like.
>

"Speculative fiction" is a term I've heard for it, which seems accurate and inclusive enough. Maybe that's what you were thinking of as "Prophetic fiction".

> -Faux "pigs... in... space..." Pas

Iss "'You are all. Idiots.' --Sam the Eagle" achar

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