Far be it from me to critique other people's ideosyncratic classification systems

[james_davis_nicoll]

After all, I will argue that Starship Troopers is proto-MilSF.

Brin's system of sorting SF from F will produce counter-intuitive results, like Asimov's Foundation, which is all about restoring the Old Order What Stood for Thousands of Years, is fantasy, whereas any Diskworld novel about clackers and the post and dwarves and trolls learning to coexist is SF.

(it's important to note "Having said that, what is my definition of the separation?". Brin's definition, not THE WORD OF MIGHT DEGLER HIMSELF)

Comments

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Well, at least Moorcock does admit that some of his S&S was written fast to pay the bills.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

It doesn't strike me that one can fault crafters from making simple chairs to put food on the table. Working crafters work. Good ones don't begrudge the simple chairs or the people who want them, though.