Types And Meanings Of "SF"

I was in an "sf bookshop" that was entirely media-oriented: Stars Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Dune, Doctor Who, Blake's Seven, Babylon 5, Lost In Space etc, no novels by HG Wells or Poul Anderson. There is a connection between the Time Traveller's Time Machine and the Doctor's TARDIS (the latter a space-time machine) and also between the Martian tripods and the Daleks (evolved organisms inside protective machines). Sf encompasses both sets of ideas. Poul Anderson, of course, contributes Time Patrol timecycles, mutant time travellers, time corridors, half a dozen Martian races and the conquering Merseians among much else.

Fiction With An SF Setting

Spaceships, often traversing hyperspace or warp space, are merely vehicles to transport characters to other locations called "planets," inhabited either by human colonists of by sf aliens, humanoid beings with oddly shaped heads, maybe cat- or dog-like. Characters interact and narratives unfold against such backdrops. (Is this a parody?)

Andersonian SF

Hyperspace or other means of FTL interstellar travel are scientifically rationalized. The cosmic setting of stars, the Milky Way, nebulae and other galaxies is realized. Planetary environments and extra-terrestrial organisms are described in detail. Characters interact on the basis of alien biologies and psychologies. Thus, Diomedeans and Ythrians differ from human beings and from each other. Story settings are substantial, not superficial.

I might shortly read A. Bertram Chandler's The Dark Dimensions because it guest stars Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry but which kind of sf is Chandler's Rim Worlds series?