Why is Watership Down sci-fi?

[KEV67]

That is if you consider it is. I can see some parallels with fantasy. I read it eight times as a boy. The story is about rabbits. Sure, they are not very naturalistic rabbits. I am pretty sure rabbits are not that intelligent, unless we have all been underestimating them all these years. The Wind and the Willows is never categorised as sci-fi or fantasy. Beatrice Potter is never considered a science fiction writer.

[Hayley]

I’ve never heard anybody call it sci-fi. I can’t work out why it would be either! 

[Raven]

2 hours ago, Hayley said:

 

I’ve never heard anybody call it sci-fi. I can’t work out why it would be either! 

 

 

Sounds like you are forgetting General Woundwort's lazer eye...

 

(I know I am)

 

[KEV67]

Mock away, but when I went into Waterstones today, JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf was in the sci-fi and fantasy section. 

[lunababymoonchild]

22 minutes ago, KEV67 said:

Mock away, but when I went into Waterstones today, JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf was in the sci-fi and fantasy section. 

Waterstones are like that. I once went in and asked for a biography of Pugin and it was listed as on the premises by the computer but the assistant couldn't find it, after going to all the places that I had thought of.  She finally found it in the religious section because it was called God's Architect!

Edited December 29, 2021 by lunababymoonchild

[Hayley]

13 hours ago, KEV67 said:

JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf was in the sci-fi and fantasy section. 

Actually I can understand why Beowulf would be in fantasy, since it does tell the story of a hero slaying monsters and dragons. 

 

12 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said:

She finally found it in the religious section because it was called God's Architect!

That’s quite funny