Harry Potter is NOT science fiction

[hert0661]

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From: hert0661
Subject: Re: Harry Potter is NOT science fiction
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5740] Harry Potter is NOT science fiction
Date: 8/4/00 5:48 pm  (ET)

"I would be hard pressed to come up with a series of books that is more
clearly fantasy and clearly not science fiction than Harry Potter."

As many around here know I am a keen reader of Terry Pratchett's Discworld
series. This is also described as science fiction even though it is very
much fantasy.

I think that the British retailers usually lump the two catogries
together and so HP is under sci-fi and fantasy. This is then shortened
to be called sci-fi but infact is covering a much larger range of books.

Simon