Let me reply to myself to air one of my gripes. Again, Little Red Riding Hood is, of course, a fantasy, but in Bookshare in order to classify it as a fantasy it is necessary to classify it in the category fantasy and science fiction. By no means is Little Red Riding Hood science fiction. It does not even come close. It is about as far away from science fiction as a piece of fiction can get. Oh, how I wish Bookshare would split the science fiction and fantasy categories. Oh, how I wish that everyone in the world who comes up with categories for books would stop lumping science fiction and fantasy together. They are about as far apart as any two genres of fiction can get. They are as far apart as alchemy and chemistry. They are the difference between astrology and astronomy. On 12/23/2014 10:03 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx for DMARC) wrote:
It used to be that if a fantasy was an adult fantasy it was questioned that it was a real fantasy. Well, adult fantasy has become popular enough now that I see that it is now questioned whether it is a fantasy if it is for children. Fifty years ago or even a lot more recently it would have never been a question. Of course, it is a fantasy.On 12/23/2014 9:27 PM, Judy s. wrote:Any thoughts about how to classify a book as to type if it is a child's fairy tale? It's obviously a children's book, and it's literature and fiction, but would you consider a fairy tale, like Little Red Riding Hood, a fantasy novel as well?-- Judy s.Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese <https://twitter.com/QuackersNCheese>
