Re: ~ Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Author and Gay Man, Dies

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Mike Schilling 
declared:
> mike weber wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:25:49 GMT, "Mike Schilling"
>> <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> mike weber wrote:
>>
>>>> However, what Kipling wrote was more nearly what we would today
>>>> consider "science fiction", though Twain's "Tom Sawyer, Aeronaut"
>>>> and
>>>> "Tpom Sawyer Abroad" come closeish.
>>> Connecticut Yankee comes closer still.  And his shaggy God stories
>>> (Adam's Diary, Eve's Diary, the unpublished stuff in which 
>>> pre-Flood
>>> Earth has all the bad qualities of the early 20th Century) are all
>>> represented in SF too.
>>>
>> "Connecticut Yankee", for me, is fantasy, not SF, as it uses 
>> patently
>> non-scitntific means to affect the time transitions.
> 
> SF, in the usual rasfw paralnce, includes fantasy. 

"SF" when used in the sense of "speculative fiction" covers fantasy, 
science fiction, and alt-history. But the context of this discussion 
is specifically science fiction.


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