Talk:Gothic science fiction

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A standard term?

The lack of sources flagged on the main page suggests that this is not a term in regular use among scholars, critics, reviewers, and other commentators on SF--I found one example in the title of an essay on Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde and an odd appearance in a Britannica article on Arthur Machen, but otherwise it shows up almost entirely in blogs and Amazon reviews. It's certainly a useful descriptive term (lots of SF--and mysteries and romances--have "gothic" qualities and motifs), but it is not, as the article suggests, a true subgenre. Unless someone can supply examples of authoritative uses of the term as a genre label, I'd suggest deletion of the article. RLetson 05:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a more common name for the genre being described? RJFJR 15:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose that Space Goth be merged into Gothic science fiction. I think that the content in the Space Goth article can easily be explained in the context of Gothic science fiction, and the Gothic science fiction article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Space Goth will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. 173.48.81.211 (talk) 23:18, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense. /Julle (talk) 23:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support, as per the reasoning given by 173.48.81.211. No reason for this stub when it could be quite easily integrated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quinto Simmaco (talk • contribs) 13:54, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nominator. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:51, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge done. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 12:00, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]