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Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Camilla Send a noteboard - 11/05/2011 08:54:52 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.

Obviously I consider fantasy and sci-fi to fall under the broader "spec fic" category; but the Challenge being to read one of each, it seems logical that the one that's referred to as "spec fic" would belong to that part of the "spec fic" category that is neither fantasy nor sci-fi. To me that seems logical, anyway. :P

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).

Fantasy. Not much room for doubt there, in my opinion... sure, it's fantasy that borrows heavily from mafia and crime novels, and is set in a Venice clone more than a traditional fantasy world, but even so.


Can you give me an example of a spec fic that cannot be called either fantasy or sci fi? This challenge just got a hell of a lot harder.
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RAFO Challenges for May and June: what are your choices? Rebekah - 01/05/2011 10:56:11 AM 984 Views
Right. I have decided. Rebekah - 03/05/2011 12:59:32 PM 766 Views
So. Finished the first of my three. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:49:32 PM 722 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 718 Views
Maybe. Rebekah - 09/05/2011 07:55:46 PM 773 Views
Re: Maybe. Camilla - 09/05/2011 07:58:03 PM 743 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 312 Views
No, I'm just wildly behind. Stephen - 10/05/2011 10:07:37 PM 818 Views
And I've changed my mind. Rebekah - 18/05/2011 01:52:16 PM 779 Views
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I don't know what that means. nossy - 10/05/2011 05:02:15 PM 760 Views
I'm counting Summer Tree as spec fic nossy - 10/05/2011 07:16:15 PM 726 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 697 Views
Huh Camilla - 10/05/2011 10:28:58 PM 797 Views
That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:53:14 PM 779 Views
Re: That was what I meant, maybe I phrased that badly... Camilla - 11/05/2011 08:54:52 PM 722 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 707 Views
Gaiman's short stories? Camilla - 12/05/2011 10:54:59 AM 798 Views
Some of them would be, yes. Rebekah - 12/05/2011 11:12:05 AM 736 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Rebekah - 11/05/2011 09:00:32 PM 762 Views
MIdnight's Children? jh - 11/05/2011 09:11:24 PM 805 Views
Thomas Ligotti. Michael Cisco. Algernon Blackwood. Larry - 11/05/2011 11:14:45 PM 858 Views
Indeed. Rebekah - 10/05/2011 10:37:51 PM 752 Views
I'm glad our fearless leaders are so sure. nossy - 11/05/2011 01:31:52 AM 854 Views
Speculative Fiction ranagrande - 11/05/2011 02:03:12 PM 771 Views
I entirely agree, evidently I phrased my opinion badly though... *NM* Legolas - 11/05/2011 08:55:00 PM 315 Views
Sure, I'll give it a shot. *NM* Legolas - 10/05/2011 08:10:04 PM 357 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 731 Views
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