Fantasy or Science fiction?

[The News Crews]

Are you a Fantasy chad or a Science Fiction dweeb?

 

[OrionBalls]

They're fairly similar, a lot of times. For example, Star Wars is a fantasy movie that often gets lumped in with sci-fi. But for me, low fantasy, like Pratchett. Fuck that Wheel of Time type shit.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Science fiction is just the long way around to the same destination.

Fantasy: "Furries are real"
Science fiction: "The Federation used technology Captain Kirk stole from the Romulans to genetically engineer furries into existence"

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Hard sci-fi. I want proper autistic sci-fi like Asimov's robotics sperging , or three hours of Matt Damon growing potatoes in his own shit.

 

[OrionBalls]

Hard sci-fi. I want proper autistic sci-fi like Asimov's robotics sperging , or three hours of Matt Damon growing potatoes in his own shit.

How do you feel about Crichton's works?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Science fiction is superior

Star Wars is a fantasy movie

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Me
Parking lot.
Now.

 

[OrionBalls]

Science fiction is superior

U
Me
Parking lot.
Now.

Why? You wanna make out? The whole thing is written like a fairy tale. There's a young man in a far away kingdom who seeks out a wizard to help him save a princess. They meet interesting characters along the way who give them tools that they need, and eventually do save the princess, and the kingdom, though the wizard must sacrifice himself to do so.

 

[Sunset Ethernia]

Aren't those basically the same genre, but the other one tries to be "realistic"?

 

[starborn427614]

It depends on whether my hair is short or long at the time.

 

[OrionBalls]

It depends on whether my hair is short or long at the time.

So like when it's Mark Hamill's original hair from "Star Wars" in 1977 changed when they "remastered" his hair by cutting it shorter for the theatrical re-release of "Star Wars IV: A New Hope" in anticipation of the prequel trilogy? Jesus, I suddenly feel old.

 

[starborn427614]

So like when it's Mark Hamill's original hair from "Star Wars" in 1977 changed when they "remastered" his hair by cutting it shorter for the theatrical re-release of "Star Wars IV: A New Hope" in anticipation of the prequel trilogy? Jesus, I suddenly feel old.

That's one way to put it, but I was just memeing a bit.

 

[AnneRipper1010]

Si-fi is for men fantasy is for boys

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Why? You wanna make out?

you wanna wake up with a crowd around ya?

The whole thing is written like a fairy tale.

Yer a fairy tale

There's a young man in a far away kingdom who seeks out a wizard to help him save a princess. They meet interesting characters along the way who give them tools that they need, and eventually do save the princess, and the kingdom, though the wizard must sacrifice himself to do so.

On a spaceship. With lasers.

So like when it's Mark Hamill's original hair from "Star Wars" in 1977 changed when they "remastered" his hair by cutting it shorter for the theatrical re-release of "Star Wars IV: A New Hope" in anticipation of the prequel trilogy? Jesus, I suddenly feel old.

fucking what? How high are you?

fantasy is for boys

and fairies

 

[OrionBalls]

you wanna wake up with a crowd around ya?

Yer a fairy tale

On a spaceship. With lasers.

fucking what? How high are you?

and fairies

Yeah. Clarity went out the window there for a second. But it's not completely unintelligible. George Lucas digitally cut Mark Hamill's hair for the remaster of Star Wars (now called A New Hope.) He went from a long 70's bowl cut with fringe to a shorter bowl cut. The change was subtle, and yet, we all noticed at the time. I've got some thirty year old magazines around here describing the process, because such alterations were novel at the time.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Starting with Fantasy and peaking with Sci-fi.
That's my idea of my trilogy of fantasy-to-sci-fi novels

 

[User names must be unique]

Science fantasy. The Shadow of the Torturer, WH40K, some of GRR Martins stuff. Give me illiterate techno savages living in the ruins of a perfect future.

 

[Neodanthril]

Science fiction is using technology to solve some issue and evaluating how that changes human behaviors, specifically relating to politics. The spectrum of hard to soft sci fi is just how many physics buzzwords the encapsulate the maguffin that drives the whole story.

Fantasy, with or without the word "space" in front of it, is about dudes with awesome swords killing the bad people and looking dope while doing it. The choice is obvious.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

There is also magical realism and New Weird, but I can't decide really, because it depends too much on particular authors or even works, I have some important favourites and some absolutely hated in all of those.

 

[Oxyjen]

Sci-fi dweeb.
But not the hardest of hard, I like your more relatable Robert Heinlein, your Neal Stephenson, maybe some Iain M. Short dystopian sci-fi from the 80s/90s is my favorite genre of all, seeing as most of it is now coming true.
It’s got to be well written and engaging, and fantasy rarely is (well, modern fantasy, Tolkien is ok).