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I think Jemisin is moving SciFi/Fantasy toward a point in which the hard line is becoming irrelevant. In general, I can't tolerate SciFi for much the same reason that I'm bored with High Fantasy. Jemesin brings enough of each into her stories that I can enjoy the science and am not seeing an ill-defined magic system bail characters out of poor choices.

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The "New Wave" authors of the 1960s and 1970s such as Zelazny, Delany (directly mentioned in the article), Aldiss and others already pushed the boundaries of the "hard line" between Sci-Fi and Fantasy to the point of irrelevancy. It's not entirely a new struggle for these "two" genres to play with their boundaries.

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