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Huh Camilla Send a noteboard - 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM
I tend to consider Spec Fic as an umberella category that includes fantasy and science fiction (themselves genres which are sometimes so broad they are becoming meaningless). I was therefore going to read one fantasy, one sci fi, and if I read one I couldn't categorise, or another one that fit one of the two others, I would count that as spec fic.

What is Lies of Locke Lamora to you, for example? It is not sword and sorcery (although there is both swords and sorcery in it).
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RAFO Challenges for May and June: what are your choices? Rebekah - 01/05/2011 10:56:11 AM 1107 Views
Right. I have decided. Rebekah - 03/05/2011 12:59:32 PM 900 Views
So. Finished the first of my three. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM 867 Views
Are we the only two left doing these challenges? Also: I finished my first as well Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:53:18 PM 844 Views
Maybe. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:55:46 PM 897 Views
Re: Maybe. Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:58:03 PM 870 Views
Not at all. But it'll probably be for June, for me, Vanity Fair is taking a while. *NM* Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:11:02 PM 388 Views
No, I'm just wildly behind. Stephen - 10/05/2011 10:07:37 PM 937 Views
And I've changed my mind. Rebekah - 18/05/2011 01:52:16 PM 918 Views
After careful deliberation... Camilla - 03/05/2011 01:44:08 PM 1024 Views
I don't know what that means. nossy - 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM 886 Views
I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic nossy - 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM 844 Views
I figure the idea is "spec fic" covers everything that's, well, spec fic, without being fantasy / SF Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:09:31 PM 826 Views
Huh Camilla - 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM 911 Views
That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM 915 Views
Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Camilla - 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM 841 Views
I'd have to agree with Rebekah that e.g. The Time Traveller's Wife qualifies. Legolas - 11/05/2011 09:00:03 PM 831 Views
Gaiman's short stories? Camilla - 12/05/2011 10:54:59 AM 914 Views
Some of them would be, yes. Rebekah - 12/05/2011 11:12:05 AM 853 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Rebekah - 11/05/2011 09:00:32 PM 879 Views
MIdnight's Children? jh - 11/05/2011 09:11:24 PM 938 Views
Thomas Ligotti. Michael Cisco. Algernon Blackwood. Larry - 11/05/2011 11:14:45 PM 994 Views
Indeed. Rebekah - 10/05/2011 10:37:51 PM 874 Views
I'm glad our fearless leaders are so sure. nossy - 11/05/2011 01:31:52 AM 975 Views
Speculative Fiction ranagrande - 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM 902 Views
I entirely agree, evidently I phrased my opinion badly though... *NM* Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:55:00 PM 373 Views
Sure, I'll give it a shot. *NM* Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:10:04 PM 416 Views
Pure pimpage: In a few weeks, I'll have a story being published in an anthology that'd meet this Larry - 11/05/2011 11:18:17 PM 868 Views
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