Haven't yet read Morgaine, but Dragonriders is... too thoroughly fantasy to satisfy? Like, the spacefaring ancestors are too much like the Mystical Mysterious Magefolk Of The Past found in generic fantasy (maybe this should become another corollary of Clarke's Law?). They're just fantasy with the faintest tinge of SF; one could read 90% of the series and never realise that spaceships had ever existed in this universe, which applies to plenty of outright fantasy series, too.
(Brust's Dragaera series comes to mind. One of my favourite fantasy series! But definitely fantasy; not enough boundary-crossing happens for me to consider it really part of both categories.)
Mind you, the SF-focused Pern novels (notably All the Weyrs of Pern and, after that, Dragonsdawn) are definitely faves within the series! But I tend to split it in my mind rather than lump all the series together, because so much of the story between those two books is pure fantasy that I can't quite consider it SF no matter the background...
This seems to be a really longwinded comment that amounts to Don't cross the streams! Or at least don't cross them without a lot of careful planning. :D
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Date: 2014-12-26 03:52 am (UTC)(Brust's Dragaera series comes to mind. One of my favourite fantasy series! But definitely fantasy; not enough boundary-crossing happens for me to consider it really part of both categories.)
Mind you, the SF-focused Pern novels (notably All the Weyrs of Pern and, after that, Dragonsdawn) are definitely faves within the series! But I tend to split it in my mind rather than lump all the series together, because so much of the story between those two books is pure fantasy that I can't quite consider it SF no matter the background...
This seems to be a really longwinded comment that amounts to Don't cross the streams! Or at least don't cross them without a lot of careful planning. :D