David Hobby wrote: > > Ah, what IS science fiction? I admit that the lines blur, so it > may be best to just appeal to authority. My own definition is that > Science Fiction books show slices of axiomatically derived alternate > realities. The author should start with a small number of non-standard > assumptions (the axioms), and carefully derive the consequences. > I would say that the above definition is for (what Heinlein called) _speculative_ fiction. Science fiction would require that at least one character in the book studied those axioms and discovered unexpected consequences of them - a scientific approach to the world.
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