Real Literature = Sci-Fi

>asking for the citation to a personal premise
>ignores the bulk of the argument that follows

Let me explain your funny joke, OP.

You are calling traditional religion and folklore science fiction as a backhanded compliment. Very fierce of you, super coy.

You are calling niche interest fetishism for virgins who think big guns in space are cool the latest incarnation of consecrated epic, tragic and sacred literature. This is deliberately smug of you, and doesn't reflect your non-defensive opinion, which is that big guns in space are cool.

I can't see Dante or Shakespeare in the SF, no matter how I try to spin it.
Whoever wrote the book of Enoch, though. There's your ancient Sci-fi. Revelation less so.

seriously big world and serious external enemies only exist in SF. this is foundation for new epics. op did nothing wrong.

Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth are obviously fantasy, which would make them sci-fi at Shakespeare's time, since the term 'science' wasn't around yet

Literary fiction with fantasy elements isn't the same as fantasy.

This. The faries in MSND and the witches in MacBeth are conceived from the outset as devices. SF/F authors insert these kinds of things in general as a form of escapism.

Well, this isn't REALLY sci-fi because my professor told me it's okay to like it

>mfw no one else notices OP is posting Gene Wolfe quotes

I don't like how only homosexual jews writing memoirs are considered "real" literature in modern times.