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<blockquote data-quote="Hand of Evil" data-source="post: 6138730" data-attributes="member: 371">In the beginning there was pulp, it was fiction but it covered a great number of subjects; action, adventure, magic, horror, alternate worlds, death-rays, the occult, and stuff like that.&nbsp; Then came the Atomic Bomb and the age of the atom and pulp had to be explained within the laws of nature or rationally, things like FTL &quot;warps&quot; space are explained.&nbsp; What this did was break apart pulp into science stuff and the rest went to fantasy (the stuff that did not have science in it).The Star Wars effect: Star Wars was sort of a reunion for science fiction and fantasy, the science did not have to be explained, it was just in the background and then you added your elements of fantasy.&nbsp; From this we find ourselves back at pulp, lots of stuff mixed in with science and rationality taking a background role.So, don't think of it as science fiction or science fantasy, think of it as pulp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hand of Evil, post: 6138730, member: 371"] In the beginning there was pulp, it was fiction but it covered a great number of subjects; action, adventure, magic, horror, alternate worlds, death-rays, the occult, and stuff like that. Then came the Atomic Bomb and the age of the atom and pulp had to be explained within the laws of nature or rationally, things like FTL "warps" space are explained. What this did was break apart pulp into science stuff and the rest went to fantasy (the stuff that did not have science in it). The Star Wars effect: Star Wars was sort of a reunion for science fiction and fantasy, the science did not have to be explained, it was just in the background and then you added your elements of fantasy. From this we find ourselves back at pulp, lots of stuff mixed in with science and rationality taking a background role. So, don't think of it as science fiction or science fantasy, think of it as pulp. [/QUOTE]

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