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Fantasy Genres - A Beginner's Guide — CultureSlate (www.cultureslate.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.