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Mythopoet
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Well, obviously I am not an "expert" or an "academic" in the field. I am only a reader. But I don't think those are very good definitions. They are much too broad. They don't echo at all what seems to me the way that most readers think of Science Fiction. And, in my opinion, the only valid purpose of genre labels is to aid readers in finding stories they want to read. If Science Fiction is as broad as all that, then the label is almost entirely useless to most readers.
Science Fiction has an image in the popular imagination. Authors like to pretend the trappings don't matter but they do. To most readers they do.
Science Fiction has an image in the popular imagination. Authors like to pretend the trappings don't matter but they do. To most readers they do.