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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5337006" data-attributes="member: 22779">And, let's not forget, being consigned to the SF section is death for any mainstream author.  There's a reason Margaret Atwood absolutely refuses to place her work within SF circles.  The SF ghetto is not where mainstream authors and publishers choose to be.Thinking about this a bit more, and looking at three of the authors in Galloglaich's post - Vance, Moorcock and Lovecraft, about the only part of fantasy that isn't covered is Epic fantasy, a la Tolkien.  And I don't think anyone would seriously try to exclude Tolkien from the genre.  I mean, if you made a Venn diagram of all the fantasy (and SF) tropes contained in Vance, Moorcock and Lovecraft, what isn't covered by at least one of the three?</blockquote>