Fantasy is one of the most popular genres of the moment. Iron Flame the sequel to Rebecca Yarros’ book Fourth Wing is sitting at 29th on Amazon’s best-seller list, and it’s not even out until November. This is not the first time Fantasy has been a fad. In the 70s & 80s readers we
I’m surprised that the article made no reference to the overlap between Fantasy and Sci-Fi. As much as I hated it at first, I now agree with how book shops tend to merge them - for the most part they are one and the same. The Dragonriders of Pern would be a (very dated) example of how a fantasy book can actually be a Sci-Fi book in disguise - and would have been a much better example in the Science Fantasy pool.
Science Fantasy is a weird category. I mean you take a futuristic setting and then treat is as Fantasy with minimal work on the science side. I would argue that most of Star Wars fits that bill.
However, why put Ilium by Dan Simmons as Science Fantasy? As far as I recall, the science was pretty well grounded.