Is it SF? Fantasy? Something else?
- Stories that mix elements of SF and Fantasy so it’s sometimes hard to tell which genre the story belongs to.
- This is only a problem if you feel you need to label. Mostly an issue for those who like splitting hairs for one reason or another; like if your library decides to label fantasy for your patrons’ sake, or for academics. Your readers may or may not care, as long as they get the elements they want in their reading.
- Many common story elements could go either way, depending on how they’re used. Dragons - magical beings or genetically engineered constructs? Time Travel - Magically or scientifically motivated? Moving from point to point instantly without the aid of machinery - teleporation or apparation?
- Some stories are both - magical and technological universes intersect, for instant, and the fun is seeing how members from one universe operate in the other.
Pern series by Ann McCaffrey (also Lost Colony, Psionics)
Warlock series by Christopher Stasheff (also Lost Colony)
Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
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