Erik Reuter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:44:51PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:03:39 -0400, Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:45:57PM +0900, G. D. Akin wrote: > > > > > > > My question is this: what makes a book/story SF? > > > > > > Simple. It should be fiction, and it should involve science or something > > > related to science in some major or minor way! > > > > So by this classification, would you consider Atwood's "The Handmaid's > > Tale" not to be SF? > > Haven't read it. Heard a couple things, not sure if they are true. Most > women infertile? Why? Was there a (at least somewhat) scientific > explanation given?
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