It is actually a well known fact that many authors who are working in the genre of fantasy or science fiction do not necessarily view themselves as science fiction/fantasy authors; and instead write about humans, ideas, history and pholosophy etc...; with sci-fi / fantasy being merely plot devices they employ.

Among the most well known of these are:

• Stanislav Lem

• Brothers Strugatsky (whose importance to Soviet sci-fi can be thought of Heinline+Asimov put together)

• Going further back, Bulgakov and even further Gogol.

• And, going even further, heck, why not Homer?

It is actually a well known fact that many authors who are working in the genre of fantasy or science fiction do not necessarily view themselves as science fiction/fantasy authors; and instead write about humans, ideas, history and philosophy etc...; with sci-fi / fantasy being merely plot devices they employ.

Among the most well-known of these are:

• Stanislaw Lem

• Brothers Strugatsky (whose importance to Soviet sci-fi can be thought of Heinlein+Asimov put together)

• Going further back, Bulgakov and even further Gogol.

• And, going even further, heck, why not Homer?