Talk:H. Rider Haggard

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[edit] sf?

This author has been suggested for inclusion in Category:Science fiction writers: which of his books gave rise to this suggestion? --Phil | Talk 08:32, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

The (relatively few, mind) Haggard novels I've read tend toward the mystical/magical - thousand-year-old sorceresses, lost civilisations in darkest Africa, that sort of thing; I can't think offhand of anything in any of them that qualifies as "science fiction", even under the relaxed contemporary standards that let things like Barsoom in. (Come to think of it, the lost civilisation in Ayesha had discovered how to turn base metal into gold - but I can't recall whether it was by mystical or technological means, nor whether they had other capabilities along those lines.) --Paul A 08:47, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"thousand-year-old sorceresses, lost civilisations in darkest Africa, that sort of thing", yes - therefore I think that Category:Fantasy_writers is more appropriate than Category:Science fiction writers - I added it. Gestumblindi 19:24, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think he is SF. Lost race stories are SF. Kdammers 10:19, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ag

Haggard wrote a significant work on agriculture (agricultural economics). he was even knighted for his work on agriculture. In the Great Soviet Encyclopeida, this is what is covered in the article on him. Lenin mentioned his work. Something of this needs to be put into the article.Kdammers 10:19, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In the "Chronology of works", "Montezuma's Daughter" is listed twice with different years (1893, 1899). Is that correct?