Yup, but then your response to the idea of hard fantasy (describing it as "illegitimate" SF) comes from your reaction to those traditions. If you look at what the genre actually requires, hard fantasy is a sensible thing, not illegitimate at all. Defining things in response to how the stereotypical hard SF fan sees things is not particularly useful. It's limiting to only grapple with things on their terms, because they set the terms (mostly) on ground they understand and then whine if you bring out literary analysis techniques more sophisticated than a physics equation.
Hard fantasy is actually a cool and useful term for litcrit. It's worth exploring. With the genre framework *I* work with, SF becomes a subgenre of hard fantasy.
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Date: 2006-06-14 12:24 am (UTC)Hard fantasy is actually a cool and useful term for litcrit. It's worth exploring. With the genre framework *I* work with, SF becomes a subgenre of hard fantasy.