rone wrote: >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. > > Historical Fiction? Romance Novels? Murder Mysteries? Sure, all of them *involve* some small amount of speculation, but they are not *centered* around a speculative premise. They're just fictional instances of things that actually happen all the time.(Or actually did happen, as in the first example.) Majikjon