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To: Zuben Elgenubi; Borges

I immediately started thinking of Jewish sf writers, too ... Harlan Ellison, Avram Davidson ... but the author of this article makes a firm, if not inarguable, distinction between fantasy and science fiction. The lines have blurred in much recent writing, as I learned when I asked my daughter to define “steampunk.”


8 posted on 05/03/2010 1:35:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There's a perfectly good island somewhere.)
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To: Tax-chick

“I immediately started thinking of Jewish sf writers, too ... Harlan Ellison, Avram Davidson ... but the author of this article makes a firm, if not inarguable, distinction between fantasy and science fiction.”

Doesn’t Joel Rosenberg write fantasy as well as SF? I am pretty sure he is Jewish.


37 posted on 05/03/2010 2:14:31 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (I can see November from my house.)
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the author of this article makes a firm, if not inarguable, distinction between fantasy and science fiction. The lines have blurred in much recent writing

That's a topic that interests me. Would you (and others) define Ray Bradbury, for instance, as a science-fiction author?

Also, how is "Jewish" defined? Would secular Jews be counted along with religiously observant Jews?

75 posted on 05/03/2010 4:11:22 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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