[ SECRET POST #2557 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2557 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How do you guys define sci-fi and fantasy?

[(Anonymous)]

Scifi: SCIENCE! it doesn't matter how improbable it is because it happens because SCIENCE! (pseudoscience, technology, etc)

Fantasy: MAGIC! Anything is possible because MAGIC! (even if the magic isn't codified or explained, it's still clearly Stuff That Doesn't Happen In Our World)

It has absolutely nothing to do with the depth of material, symbolism and metaphor, issues and topics, underlying themes, moral of the story, or anything else, because both genres can have a very wide range of said characteristics. You can explore deep themes and write allegorical morality-plays in both genres. You can have silly shallow stories (or, as they call it, popcorn-flicks) in both genres. The base core, to me, of the difference between the two is that sci-fi is about science (even pseudoscience, or elements dressed up to look like science) and fantasy is unabashedly about magic. Neither is better or worse, they just choose to explore themes, plots, and topics via different means that presuppose the reader's expectations for one or the other.

Re: How do you guys define sci-fi and fantasy?

[caerbannog]

Pretty much this for me.

Science fiction - the world is based off/around science (realistic or not) and/or explains things off with science

Fantasy - the world is based off/around magic (realistic or not) and/or explains things with magic.

Re: How do you guys define sci-fi and fantasy?

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you pretty much just said everything I came here to say. SF has impossible things happen through (nominal) science, fantasy has impossible things happen through (nominal) magic.

For sub-genres which cleave much closer to the "real world" (low fantasy, hard SF, etc.) and therefore have little to no magic/pseudoscience going on, there's always the old fallback rule: if it's got dragons, it's fantasy; if it's got genetically-engineered bat-lizards, it's SF.

Re: How do you guys define sci-fi and fantasy?

[caecilia]

It has absolutely nothing to do with the depth of material, symbolism and metaphor, issues and topics, underlying themes, moral of the story, or anything else, because both genres can have a very wide range of said characteristics.

Thank you :)