Vaultboy

I've never liked the term "speculative fiction", because it is too vague and undefined, and because too little of it is not SF to merit its own sub-genre. Alternate reality and Alternative history (which accounts for the majority of non-SF speculative fiction) is found on SF shelves in stores/catalogues anyway. So I regard the speculative fiction sub-genre as defunct. I don't feel much for the few authors who didn't like to be "labelled" as an SF writer. Darwin's Children by Greg Bear is what I would classify as a Hard SF speculative fiction, and it is a good book to add to the list.

On-topic though, It would be useful for the discussion group admin to steer the discussion for each book with pointed questions, instead of letting us just post random reviews.

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