Which weirds me out, frankly. I can see where vampires/ghosts/witches/demons/angels and other supernatural creatures would be in horror, but certainly not paranormal elements such as telepathy, ESP, and any other psychic ability. Paranormal's become a pretty broad, almost nebulous category these days.
~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think Paranormal is usually in the horror section, but there are things > like unexplainable phenomena that does not deal with ghosts that could be in > scifi. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Adrianne Brennan < > adrianne.bren...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Science fiction will be around for as long as fiction exists. While >> cross-genres can confuse what science fiction is (I actually saw a post that >> wondered at the differences between paranormal and scifi, and could fiction >> be both? My reply was yes), it's not going to kill the genre. It just means >> taking the time to refine it more. >> I have a cross-genre sci-fi coming out soon myself, and I had no problems >> explaining that fantasy was magic, science fiction was fiction about >> science, futuristic meant...well, the future...and paranormal meant psychic >> abilities. You can have science fiction that's contemporary or historical, >> you can have it without paranormal elements, you can have paranormal that >> isn't science fiction...et cetera. >> >> I'm not confused. Just more variety to read! :D >> >> ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ >> http://www.adriannebrennan.com >> Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: >> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon >> Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: >> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath >> The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs: >> http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Martin Baxter < >> truthseeker...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Last week, if memory serves, someone (forgive me for not naming you -- >>> memory still plays havoc) posed the question if SF itself was dead/dying. >>> This is a short piece, not really fleshed out on its own or in comments. I'm >>> hoping we can beef it up a bit ourselves. >>> >>> http://wisb.blogspot.com/2009/09/crossing-genres-is-cross-genre-sf.html >>> >>> "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in >>> bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check >>> it >>> out.<http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > >
