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Engelbrecht
Posted 2017-01-22 5:12 PM (#15158 - in reply to #12451)
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Welcome to the challenge!

I see that you felt that Being There wasn't really SF.

My own take on things is to be pretty widely inclusive, as seems to be the case with some other significant sources like ISFDB and the Encyclopedia of SF, both of which consider Being There to be SF.  I haven't read the book, but based on the movie, it could be viewed as alternate history/near future SF.  But perhaps it's better viewed as something of a SF fable.  There's an interesting discussion here of Fabulist Fiction, which encompasses edge cases like this.

Anyhow, an unstated goal of the challenge is to get people to examine their definitions of just what genre is, so it seems to have been a success here!  I really should tweak the challenge description to reflect this - thanks for guiding my thought in this direction!





Edited by Engelbrecht 2017-01-22 5:16 PM

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