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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
      
   > In message   
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   > "darylgene@aol.com"  spoke these staves:   
   >   
   >> I would guess a rule of thumb would be that sci fi extends the   
   >> natural order while fantasy alters it, no?   
   >   
   > But that would, IMO, place LotR in the realm of science fiction ;-)   
      
   Much as I hate to use the term "speculative fiction" (I hate it, because   
   writers like Margaret Atwood use it to weasel out of the fact that they   
   really do write Science Fiction), and I doubt Tolkien would have much   
   trouble with that.  His story is supposed to be set in our own past.   
      
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   derek   
      
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