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 

[shale]

On 12/30/2021 at 8:25 AM, 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. 

That one's the publisher's fault! They list them with the barcode as belonging there, same for his other scholarly texts. Fair play to them, they'll sell much more that way.