I'd said, and WorldCon for one seems to agree, that they are sub-genres of the 'speculative fiction' genre -- fiction where standard assumptions about our universe are changed to a lesser or greater degree. Whether the assumptions are the existence of vampires, the realness of gods, the possibility of faster-than-light travel, or some other thing, the result is speculative fiction: A genre where otherwise impossible ideas can be explored in fiction.
Feel free to only like sci-fi, or only alternative-Earth stories, or only stories that feature bunnies, or whatever. But there's so much overlap in authors, audience, style, publishers, artists etc etc that it's probably futile to call them fully separate genres.
Dude, the "genre" is named after both of them. Doesn't necessarily make them the same genre, just means they're lumped together as one genre. It's not the same thing. :D
Actually this is the part that ticks her off, she says. She says that because they are different, they should be separate. But most bookstores, including the one we work at, tend to smush them into the same pile of lightsabre-wielding elves, technomancers, and dwarves on motorcycles.
Personally, I couldn't give a flip, but this seems to be an actual issue with the girlfriend...
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Feel free to only like sci-fi, or only alternative-Earth stories, or only stories that feature bunnies, or whatever. But there's so much overlap in authors, audience, style, publishers, artists etc etc that it's probably futile to call them fully separate genres.
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Personally, I couldn't give a flip, but this seems to be an actual issue with the girlfriend...
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