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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8249993" data-attributes="member: 1125">I wonder if its just that Science Fiction has become a default term for anything thats not High Fantasy, and indeed while Heroic Fantasy may be the popular version of fantasy that most default to, its not the only possibility.The discussion of Jules Vern got me thinking out just how we categorise things - While its considered to be a Sci Fi classic when 200000 Leagues Under the Seas was written it wasnt ‘Sci Fi’ it was the same genre of Voyages extraordinaires of his other novels like Around the World in 80 Days and while the Natilus took the Submarine to levels of speculative technology, I am reminded of other technological marvels like Chittychittybangbang (and Herbie) that take speculative technology down a fantasy track. Pixars Cars universe is fantasy despite featuring modern anthropomorphised machines and yet Transformers is sci fi (though that does bring in the space aliens dynamic too)Then you have games like Burrows and Bunnies (and Watership Down) or&nbsp; In Nomine or Dresden Files which are fantasy but set in some real world context entirely removed from medieval castles, kings and tolkienesque races.So while I accept that High Fantsy is overwhelmingly the most popular of genres in Western Markets, I dont think there is a single default fantasy setting anymore than there is a default sci fi setting, simply because those terms arent clearly defined and everything sits on a continuum</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8249993, member: 1125"] I wonder if its just that Science Fiction has become a default term for anything thats not High Fantasy, and indeed while Heroic Fantasy may be the popular version of fantasy that most default to, its not the only possibility. The discussion of Jules Vern got me thinking out just how we categorise things - While its considered to be a Sci Fi classic when 200000 Leagues Under the Seas was written it wasnt ‘Sci Fi’ it was the same genre of [B]Voyages extraordinaires[/B] of his other novels like Around the World in 80 Days and while the Natilus took the Submarine to levels of speculative technology, I am reminded of other technological marvels like Chittychittybangbang (and Herbie) that take speculative technology down a fantasy track. Pixars Cars universe is fantasy despite featuring modern anthropomorphised machines and yet Transformers is sci fi (though that does bring in the space aliens dynamic too) Then you have games like Burrows and Bunnies (and Watership Down) or In Nomine or Dresden Files which are fantasy but set in some real world context entirely removed from medieval castles, kings and tolkienesque races. So while I accept that High Fantsy is overwhelmingly the most popular of genres in Western Markets, I dont think there is a single default fantasy setting anymore than there is a default sci fi setting, simply because those terms arent clearly defined and everything sits on a continuum [/QUOTE]

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