SharkD wrote:
> 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".

That's a bit too open to debate (and certainly more open to debate than 
the fidelity of the science) to be much use in making distinctions.

Regards,
John

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