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From: JDUPRAU at aol.com <JDUPRAU>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 21:59:25 EDT
>
> I wonder do authors intend to write pure fantasy? Was Jeanne DuPrau
> interested as to whether her book was science fiction or fantasy?
>
Can't resist answering this, though I am rushing around getting ready to go on tour. I didn't categorize Ember when I wrote it. It never occurred to me to give it a label. But now, since the question keeps coming up, I call it speculative fiction, or else, as second best, science fiction, but not fantasy. My way of distinguishing between fantasy and not-fantasy has been that there's magic in one--that is, things that defy our scientific laws--and not in the other. Everything in Ember *could* actually happen. I'm not sure this definition entirely covers it, but it's been a useful way of looking at these distinctions for me.
Jeanne DuPrau
Received on Sat 06 May 2006 08:59:25 PM CDT
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 21:59:25 EDT
>
> I wonder do authors intend to write pure fantasy? Was Jeanne DuPrau
> interested as to whether her book was science fiction or fantasy?
>
Can't resist answering this, though I am rushing around getting ready to go on tour. I didn't categorize Ember when I wrote it. It never occurred to me to give it a label. But now, since the question keeps coming up, I call it speculative fiction, or else, as second best, science fiction, but not fantasy. My way of distinguishing between fantasy and not-fantasy has been that there's magic in one--that is, things that defy our scientific laws--and not in the other. Everything in Ember *could* actually happen. I'm not sure this definition entirely covers it, but it's been a useful way of looking at these distinctions for me.
Jeanne DuPrau
Received on Sat 06 May 2006 08:59:25 PM CDT
