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.”
“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.
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?