I'm not sure I have a beef...

[viktor_haag]

... but I'm getting a bit tired of Hollywood categorizing yet another "paranormal" themed product as "science fiction". I mean, it's certainly fiction, but where the heck is the science?

Bah!

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[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem, viewable on many stores' bookshelves, is that Fantasy is lumped in with Science Fiction. The supernatural (and modern urban fantasy) clearly hooks into the mushily defined Science Fiction-qua-Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Similarly, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books used to be in Horror, but are mostly in the SF section now.

Doug.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Our clueless local Chapters (both of them) have recently bi-furcated "Fantasy" (meaning all the books that seem remotely like all the WotC game novels) and "Science Fiction" (meaning all the books that seem remotely like all the Halo and Star Trek licensed novels).

Quite often I find humour in the attempts of the shelvers to properly locate things. KJ Parker showing up in Sci Fi because the trilogy has the word "Engineer" in it. Butcher showing up in both Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but not duplicates (odd numbers in one, even in the other? who knows?).