[ SECRET POST #3745 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3745 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm also curious to know about some examples that mix the two, because they don't seem to mesh all that well? I'm trying to think of examples... Terry Brooks' Shannara series sort of, but tbh that's 99.99% fantasy with a teensy bit of sci-fi in that his Tolkienesque fantasy world supposedly developed out of a post-apocalyptic situation.

[(Anonymous)]

Most famously, probably, Jack Vance's Dying Earth stuff. There's a lot of stuff that edges between the two of them, though. There seems to have been a pretty large current back from the 60s through the 90s, of people who were writing serious SF&F that really blurred that particular genre boundary - you could definitely talk about Zelazny's stuff in that context, for instance, or Gene Wolfe.

[(Anonymous)]

Also his Demon Princes series, and The Last Castle and The Dragon Masters...

[(Anonymous)]

Ballard, Bradbury, and Butler are three that come to might right away -- though certainly 'fantasy' covers a lot of territory. Dick and Gibson also have some mix of technology and the fantastical.

If you're looking for Tolkienesque medieval high fantasy and traditional 'hard' science fiction, then yeah, I'm not sure there's a lot.

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DA

Tolkien + hard science fiction?

I adore Tolkien a lot, but with his very wordy scenery porn and multiple names for much of his main cast, it can be rather hard to get through his books. If you added lots of unusual scientific or science fiction jargon to that...

...well, I don't think it would be very popular because it would be a difficult read. Just my two cents.

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't Star Wars kinda a mix of the two? The basic story is essentially a fantasy, with a naive hero who comes into his magic powers with the help of an old wizard type to defeat a horrifically evil villain with the help of a princess and a rogue and a fantasy creature. But it also has space and starships and other planets and guns/weapons. Even the sword battles are sci-fied up with lasers.

[kamino_neko]

The comic book series Saga...huge galaxies-spanning space war, where one side is armed with lasers and the like...and the other's language basically IS magic.

[fishnchips]

I personally wasn't much of a fan of it because I've grown tired of the whole grimdark thing but Richard Morgan's A Land Fit for Heroes series mixes fantasy with sci-fi if I remember correctly (I think it was something like "the elves are aliens" or something).