Jon_Lincicum at stream.com writes: Really, I think the only real category you could call the Dragaera books is the "other" SF, "Speculative Fiction". This nicely avoids calling it science, but still allows for magical things and science things to appear. I hate the term 'speculative fiction', because it implies that there's another kind of fiction that isn't speculative. rone -- No IT story is complete without an unhappy ending. - Roy S. Rapoport <rsr at inorganic.org>