Why is, for instance, Borges, not considered a science fiction

>>9224148
Haven't read any Borges, but PKD (from the ~5 books of his I've read) always writes firmly in the sci-fi idiom and uses sci-fi settings, tropes, etc. (e.g. "I got into my hovercar") even if his themes are different.

This sort of thing can sometimes be a result of the writing as well. For instance, if Borges is good enough to be lumped in with "serious literature" instead of sci-fi. PKD is cool but honestly a poor writer, stylistically.

>>9224186
are you calling borges scifi writer ? lol

>>9224148
genres are just marketing techniques. A publisher/author looks at how they think the book will be best recieved by people who hold steadfast to their preferred genres.

Sometimes it also has to do with what else the author has written. By the time Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch, he had already written Junkie. He established himself as a writer of "literature" and not "science fiction".

If Naked Lunch was his first book, he might get classified as primarily a science fiction writer who wrote a few non-fiction autobiographies.

>>9224186
Borges used 'pulp' tropes and settings for the most part unironically. He loved Chesterton's detective fiction and cited Arthur Machen as one of his main influences. The 'serious literature'/genre distinction is often applied retroactively when it dates back for the most part to modernist criticism

>>9224148

Borges is more magic realism

>>9224148
i consider him a fantasy writer, not a sci fi writer.

>>9224148
When did Borges write sci-fi?

Academia cunts who want to feel superior that their favorite made up stories are better than other made up stories.

>>9224219
He predates 'magic realism' and has more in common with fin de siecle european symbolists/ proto science fiction writers and arcane stuff like arabic literature and nordic sagas. Reading Marcel Schwob you get a sense of what tradition Borges actually came from.

>>9224232
Library of Babel