70s Sci Fi Sleepers

[Ruin Explorer]

Is Wings of Honneamise SF? I could probably argue both yes and no...

(Which is a good thing! That's how you find out where the border is.)

It's set on a non-Earth or not-our-Earth planet and it's got a science-based story, with zero fantasy, and a focus on the wonder and importance of science (also technology is important and has developed a little differently to ours). It's certainly speculative fiction, people who "like science fiction" will pretty much universally like it, so trying to suggest it isn't sci-fi is just "being difficult" (or more precisely - contrarian), I would suggest.

I mean, what does Wikipedia call it, if we're going to appeal to authority like the OED:

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Oh it says "science fiction". So pretty clear.