From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, September 7, 2014 10:47:59 PM UTC-4, Bill Swears wrote:   
   > On 9/5/2014 3:51 PM, Kevin C wrote:   
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   > > On Friday, September 5, 2014 12:43:36 AM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > >> A lot of people wouldn't see an interpretation of biblical prophecy being   
   acted out as fantasy.  All I can say is that it's target audience is   
   Christians.  That I can say with confidence.   
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   > > Then a lot of people probably think _Water World_ was a documentary - and   
   herein is the difference. Science Fiction deals an aspect of science and how   
   characters deal with it. _Lucifer's Hammer_ deals with how characters handle   
   an asteroid strike,    
   which is a scientific possibility.   
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   > > In the same way, a book like _Left Behind_ deals with an aspect of   
   doctrine but is not, in itself, an eschatological work, in that it deals with   
   how characters handle the basic premise. That's why it would fall in the   
   category of Christian Fantasy.    
   The fantasy aspect is the characters and how they deal with the ramifications   
   of a doctrine as it unfolds.   
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   > Yes!  Left Behind could have been dropped in the pool of science fiction    
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   > in the same way that the early Dragonrider books were.  I quite forgot    
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   > the prolog until the science fictional elements began to bother me in    
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   > later books. Initially I decided that was retcon in action.  In fact, I    
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   > think somebody here told me to go back and reread Dragonflight.   
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   > I didn't read past about half a chapter of Left Behind, but it seems as    
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   > though it would change the entire sense of the books the prolog included    
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   > a gigantic, time traveling, Romulan slave ship leaving vicinity of Earth    
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   > discussing how that was a "good culling," and wondering how soon they    
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   > could come back for another group.   
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   A lot of times, it comes down to what marketing genre it's labeled as, or what   
   type bookstore it gets distributed to.   
      
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