On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Petra Mayerhofer wrote:
> Last week I saw in a bookstore that a small (German) publisher
> specialised on women's/feminist literature (Ariadne) has started a
> new series some time ago (their mystery novel series is well
> established by now). From the description I gather they intend to
> publish feminist SF and/or SF by female authors. They called the
> series 'Social Fantasy'. One can only speculate why they did not call
> it 'Science Fiction' (we use the English term in German) and why they
> used another English expression. Is 'Social Fantasy' by any chance
> an established expression, which I have simply missed?
>
> Petra
> ** Petra Mayerhofer ** pm@ier.uni-stuttgart.de **
>
I don't think this is a term used with any currency in the English-Language
science fiction and fantasy community, fan or academic. Social Science
Fiction is a commonly used term, however. Perhaps the publisher decided
on Social Fantasy because she wanted to include books that were clearly
not SF.
Mike Levy
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