Aleksej R. Serdyukov wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 ARS> CONNECT Roy /||*()*||

 ARS> On 11 Ÿ­¢ 05, 20:06 you flamed with Robert Bull! Here's the log: 

RB>> I seem to be reading more and more fantasy and less SF, and
RB>> there's no doubt that a great deal of very high-quality fantasy
RB>> is being written now.

RJT> I think there's probably more fantasy being written than hard SF.  Or
RJT> at least more of it on the bookstore shelves...
RJT> My tastes always tended toward the harder stuff,  though.

 ARS> How long here had been the last discussion about what is SF and
 ARS> what is fantasy? ;)

I'm not sure how I'd make that distinction myself,  except for being able
to point at something and say it's one or the other.  :-)

 ARS> Well, I'm not subscribed to such echoes for too long, so I saw
 ARS> only one in RU.FANTASY...

 ARS> One of the opinions was that SF explains things there are, and
 ARS> fantasy doesn't. But then Star Trek is fantasy, too, and almost
 ARS> everything is.

I don't think that's quite it...

 ARS> Currently I'm close to: fantasy has Magick or some creatures from
 ARS> fairy-tales and such, SF doesn't.

I think fantasy could perhaps be considered a subset of SF.  Maybe.

 ARS> I've only read one such fantasy book ("The Fire Rose" by Mercedes
 ARS> Lackey) not long ago (in my observable past), most of others were
 ARS> SF...

I would tend to agree that Mercedes Lackey is fantasy,  though it's been a
while since I read any of her stuff.

 ARS> Hell, Stephen King's books must be fantasy, too, I guess? Or
 ARS> what?

Yes,  I would say so.

 ARS> That's because, before recently, I was thinking that fantasy was
 ARS> just what Tolkien did.

Tolkien seems to be at the head of a lot of it,  for sure.  It _is_ an
interesting question,  and one that I haven't seen raised for quite some
time in here.

 ARS> =^..^= Good luck! +++
 ARS> ... Mad:  Tosses computer from window.  Sane:  Tosses Windows from
 ARS> computer. 

Works for me!  :-)

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