[ SECRET POST #3560 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3560 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well. Simply put sci-fi is fantasy set in the future. Both genres want to explore and put our values and moral to the test in fictional worlds. Sci-fi might be more into stylizing while fantasy is more about embroidering, but they're still something like incestuous siblings.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this. Especially since the state of modern science is itself blurring the edges of what we would call fantasy and SF. People who rant about the difference between sf and fantasy works are usually just engineering students whose idea of porn is reading a haynes manual. That or they just want an opportunity to claim they are smarter than someone else by fellating a physics textbook. There is still plenty of Gernsbackian stuff out there is they want to get their slide rules out.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a slightly better way of getting at the same idea is to think of science fiction and fantasy as both being modes of speculative fiction.

Because they do perform a lot of similar functions - in the way that you outline here - but as distinct modes of speculative fiction, the difference between them is a little more complex and a little more involved than "one is set in the future and one has magic". And it's good to preserve that sense.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think it's more "one involves science, the other involves magic", because I don't think all sci-fi is set in the future.