> The fact that some would object that she is a Sci-fi writer seems... rather reductive to me at the least. Sure Jemisin does not write "hard" SF, and the Broke

> The fact that some would object that she is a Sci-fi writer seems... rather reductive to me at the least. Sure Jemisin does not write "hard" SF, and the Broken Earth has some strong fantasy tropes. But so did Frank Herbert and Ursula Le Guin, two among the most revered writers of the genre. Do people argue that it doesn't count as sci-fi? Just because the core scientific premises revolve around the (supposedly) unsexy field of geology rather than space travel or cyberpunk adjacent (robotics, AI, etc.) stuff? I say that if Star Wars counts as Sci-Fi I don't see why Fifth Season wouldn't. Jemisin clearly has a stronger grasp on the underlying science behind what she's talking about than Asimov did about either nuclear power or statistics/sociology when he wrote the Foundation series.