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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 899 Views
So. Finished the first of my three. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM 866 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 842 Views
Maybe. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:55:46 PM 896 Views
Re: Maybe. Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:58:03 PM 869 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 936 Views
And I've changed my mind. Rebekah - 18/05/2011 01:52:16 PM 916 Views
After careful deliberation... Camilla - 03/05/2011 01:44:08 PM 1023 Views
I don't know what that means. nossy - 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM 885 Views
I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic nossy - 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM 843 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 824 Views
Huh Camilla - 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM 910 Views
That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM 914 Views
Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Camilla - 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM 840 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 830 Views
Gaiman's short stories? Camilla - 12/05/2011 10:54:59 AM 913 Views
Some of them would be, yes. Rebekah - 12/05/2011 11:12:05 AM 852 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Rebekah - 11/05/2011 09:00:32 PM 878 Views
MIdnight's Children? jh - 11/05/2011 09:11:24 PM 937 Views
Thomas Ligotti. Michael Cisco. Algernon Blackwood. Larry - 11/05/2011 11:14:45 PM 993 Views
Indeed. Rebekah - 10/05/2011 10:37:51 PM 873 Views
I'm glad our fearless leaders are so sure. nossy - 11/05/2011 01:31:52 AM 974 Views
Speculative Fiction ranagrande - 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM 901 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 866 Views
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