[iansales]

Well, see, there you go. That's why no one will ever manage a definition of science fiction and/or fantasy: Teresa believes sf is a subset of fantasy; I believe they're separate genres.

I also think "speculative fiction" is a meaningless term, invented by people too embarrassed to admit they write science fiction. All fiction is essentially speculative. What is it about sf that gives it more, er, speculativeness?

(It's ironic that Heinlein coined the term "speculative fiction", a label that sounds more impressively literary than "science fiction", when he did more than anyone to take the art out of writing in the genre...)