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<blockquote data-quote="muhcashin" data-source="post: 596395" data-attributes="member: 5346"><p><strong>A bit out of topic</strong></p><p></p><p>Note: I didn't read all the posts in this thread. So I might be repeating someone else's words.</p><p></p><p>To me the whole debate on whether anything can happen in Sci-Fi and Fantasy doesn't make much sense to me. It's rather irrelevant, since most Sci-Fi and Fantasy fiction aren't about the rules. First, Sci-Fi and Fantasy are very different kinds of litterature. </p><p></p><p>Sci-Fi generally plays with ideas and concepts. Blade Runner has many bits about artificial life, 1984 deals police states. The definition</p><p></p><p>QUOTE]Science Fiction: a genre of speculative fiction which works within known existing physcial laws and theorems and does not alter them or add new ones.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>does apply to Science Fiction, but is in no way the essence of the genre. Sci-Fi's main objectif is not to describe radical changes of known physical laws, but to take long looks at many of the most complex concepts such as isolation, love, life, etc... through a different perspective. A change of laws makes it much easier to see things differently. Let's take Blade Runner for example. The meaning of life or its value undergoes a great change with the arrival of artificial life.</p><p></p><p>The problem here is that too many people automatically associate Sci-Fi with Star Wars-esque fiction. Sci-Fi is much more than epic stories with spaceships. I am a great fan of Star Wars, but I wouldn't really call it Sci-Fi. Well, Star Wars has in no way the same effect Blade Runner or 1984 or even Neuromancer would have on its viewers/readers.</p><p></p><p>Star Wars is more fantasy. It's space fantasy. In the Fantasy genre, physical rules are bent and broken, but they don't have really any effect on the reader. The reader just takes it for granted that their is teleportation or that dragons exist. The core of a good fantasy literature rarely has to do with the changes to physical laws. Going back to Star Wars, a Death Star is basically impossible to build yet that fact is completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what it represents: evil, power, tyranny, you name it.</p><p></p><p>From my perspective, the Science Fiction you're talking about it the Space Fantasy type.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="muhcashin, post: 596395, member: 5346"] [b]A bit out of topic[/b] Note: I didn't read all the posts in this thread. So I might be repeating someone else's words. To me the whole debate on whether anything can happen in Sci-Fi and Fantasy doesn't make much sense to me. It's rather irrelevant, since most Sci-Fi and Fantasy fiction aren't about the rules. First, Sci-Fi and Fantasy are very different kinds of litterature. Sci-Fi generally plays with ideas and concepts. Blade Runner has many bits about artificial life, 1984 deals police states. The definition QUOTE]Science Fiction: a genre of speculative fiction which works within known existing physcial laws and theorems and does not alter them or add new ones.[/QUOTE] does apply to Science Fiction, but is in no way the essence of the genre. Sci-Fi's main objectif is not to describe radical changes of known physical laws, but to take long looks at many of the most complex concepts such as isolation, love, life, etc... through a different perspective. A change of laws makes it much easier to see things differently. Let's take Blade Runner for example. The meaning of life or its value undergoes a great change with the arrival of artificial life. The problem here is that too many people automatically associate Sci-Fi with Star Wars-esque fiction. Sci-Fi is much more than epic stories with spaceships. I am a great fan of Star Wars, but I wouldn't really call it Sci-Fi. Well, Star Wars has in no way the same effect Blade Runner or 1984 or even Neuromancer would have on its viewers/readers. Star Wars is more fantasy. It's space fantasy. In the Fantasy genre, physical rules are bent and broken, but they don't have really any effect on the reader. The reader just takes it for granted that their is teleportation or that dragons exist. The core of a good fantasy literature rarely has to do with the changes to physical laws. Going back to Star Wars, a Death Star is basically impossible to build yet that fact is completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what it represents: evil, power, tyranny, you name it. From my perspective, the Science Fiction you're talking about it the Space Fantasy type. [/QUOTE]
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