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Supposedly the thing that characterizes science fiction as a genre is its interest in, well, science. And yet a lot of the very best treatments of science in novels lately have been in works that are classified as fantasy.
Urban Book Editor's insight:
Since Science Fiction and Fantasy are actually marketing terms, it is not at all surprising to see that the science may be even more accurate in Fantasy novels than in Science Fiction novels.
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