Postscript: Picking Up the Pieces

As you can no doubt now see, SF is a genre made up of twelve sub-genres, as discussed in the chapters of this book. No? Well of course not. For a start, what about the sub-genres that for various reasons didn’t quite make the cut? Military SF, slipstream, science fantasy, steampunk, comedy SF, soft SF, young adult SF and many more categories are worthy of consideration in just the same way we’ve looked at hard SF, alternate history, cyberpunk and the rest.