• Drusas@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    You might be right about these not being sci-fi, but sci-fi can take place in the period in which it was written. Alternative history plus sci-fi can definitely be a thing. Or writing sci-fi that’s supposed to take place in just a few years.

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      2 months ago

      And I addressed that. I wouldn’t even feel comfortable calling said title alt-history.

      Do you think a title like the DaVinci Code is sci-fi because it altered history?

      These sound like fictional drama/thriller books in a period piece setting to me.

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            2 months ago

            In this case, yes. It’s not a serious question. It’s poking at me. Of course I don’t find the DaVinci Code to be sci-fi. The question makes no sense and comes across as aggressive.

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              2 months ago

              The question is because the DaVinci code fits that authors reasoning for why Blake should be Sci-Fi, in that it explores an alternative history.

              It’s a rhetorical question, but that does not belie the seriousness of it.

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                2 months ago

                It explores alternate history but doesn’t contain any sci-fi elements. At least not that I recall. So that made the question seem very unserious to me. Especially since I had already agreed with you that it wasn’t sci-fi.