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From: SharkD
Date: 19 Jun 2010 14:34:31
Message: <4c1d0db7$1@news.povray.org>

On 6/18/2010 7:56 PM, John VanSickle wrote:
> There are some who distinguish between sci-fi and science fiction.
>
> Science fiction is reserved for those tales in which the author both
> believes that the science in the story is possible, and is also
> technically competent enough to know what is possible and what is not.

I thought the distinction was based on literary/artistic merit alone? 
I.e. not on the quality of the "science".


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