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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-01-19 03:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #2574 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2574 ⌋

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Re: Sci-Fi or Fantasy

[personal profile] agentcthulhu 2014-01-20 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Anne McCaffrey, as problematic as her books are, had dragons and "humans" facing up against an extra-terrestrial threat. Diane Duane's Young Wizards series is a mix of fantasy and sci-fi elements where magic abd modern science plus tech exist in tandem. Charles de Lint is famous for his urban fantasy novels. Just because there is a large influence of "high fantasy" due to the recent popularity of LotR, ASoIaF and the WoT series doesn't mean "medieval Europe with magic and dragons" is the end-all of fantasy.
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Re: Sci-Fi or Fantasy

[personal profile] ariakas 2014-01-21 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
I always tended to peg McCaffrey's Pern books as sci-fi, especially with the prequels overtly focusing on bioengineering and space travel, but that's a fair point.

...Can I just say that given the shit show below, thank you for your measured and reasonable response to my slight of a genre you enjoy? I do find urban fantasy to be just as trope-riddled and repetitive as traditional fantasy, by and large, but like traditional fantasy, there are gems.