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Left Behind

Is the Left Behind series really sci-fi? I didn't get through the entire series, but I don't remember any significant scientific/technological advances playing a role. ~ MD "Webster" Otley (talk) 18:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The Christian Booksellers' Association says yes. The basis is that as soon as you deal with people vanishing into thin air, and a major reorganization of world polities that the author projects into the future, you are in the realm of science fiction. They said that even about a submission I tried to make that used nothing more technological than something that people today were already working on.

The CBA definition of science fiction appears to be quite broad, and include not only significant technological advances, but also any human (or non-human) activity beyond the earth or involving any experience out of the ordinary, including the Rapture. (1_Thessalonians 4:16-18

As I said in the article, where science fiction leaves off and speculative fiction begins is debatable and difficult to determine.Temlakos^Talk 19:03, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I see. I guess another possibility is that they see anything set in the future as sci-fi. I'm not sure we need to stick with the CBA definitions of genres, but I guess that's as good a standard as anything else, at this point. ~ MD "Webster" Otley (talk) 19:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)