• Nighed@sffa.community
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’m surprised that the article made no reference to the overlap between Fantasy and Sci-Fi. As much as I hated it at first, I now agree with how book shops tend to merge them - for the most part they are one and the same. The Dragonriders of Pern would be a (very dated) example of how a fantasy book can actually be a Sci-Fi book in disguise - and would have been a much better example in the Science Fantasy pool.

    • Darth_Iskander@sffa.community
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Science Fantasy is a weird category. I mean you take a futuristic setting and then treat is as Fantasy with minimal work on the science side. I would argue that most of Star Wars fits that bill.

      However, why put Ilium by Dan Simmons as Science Fantasy? As far as I recall, the science was pretty well grounded.