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The author concludes that it’s inappropriate to classify Wells’s book as sci-fi. He supports this by saying that it has something that great dramatic novels have and that sci-fi generally lacks.
The author concludes that Wells’s book shouldn’t be classified as sci-fi, but his premise tells us nothing about how books should be classified. We know that the book is a great dramatic novel. We also know that it has a feature that sci-fi generally lacks. But why shouldn’t it be classified as sci-fi? Why can’t it be both a great dramatic novel and sci-fi?
To get from his premise to his conclusion, the author must either make the broad assumption that no great dramatic novel can also be sci-fi, or the more specific assumption that a book that has a feature that sci-fi generally lacks shouldn’t be classified as sci-fi.
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This reiterates the fact that Wells’s book is a great dramatic novel since it contains compelling characters. But (A) doesn’t prove that the book shouldn’t be classified as sci-fi. Why can’t it be both?
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Even if novels can always be clearly classified into genres, this doesn’t help to prove that Wells’s book shouldn’t be classified as sci-fi. In fact, (B) leaves open the possibility that the book can be clearly classified into the sci-fi genre.
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The author’s argument isn’t about whether a work of sci-fi can achieve greatness. Instead, it’s about whether Wells’s book should be classified as sci-fi at all. (C) fails to prove that Wells’s book should not be classified as sci-fi.
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The author’s argument is about a novel’s classification, not its quality. Wells’s book may have strong characters and thus be high-quality, but this tells us nothing about whether it should be classified as sci-fi.
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We know from the first sentence that Wells’s book is a great dramatic novel. If a dramatic novel cannot be both great and sci-fi, then Wells’s book must not be sci-fi, since it is great. This guarantees the conclusion that the book should not be classified as sci-fi.
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