Talk:Science fiction

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. (


 * As I said in the article, where science fiction leaves off and speculative fiction begins is debatable and difficult to determine.TemlakosTalk 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)