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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8251374" data-attributes="member: 6779310">No, because your making a false equivalence here. The similar distance from each other on the tropes and setting elements don't make up for the difference in visibility, nor in those being widely accepted as defaults.Fantasy has a much lower bar for verisimilitude in many people's views. It is&nbsp; my experience that Fantasy fans are more accepting of multiple fandoms than sci-fi fans, and that this because they don't get verisimilitude in many subgenres.The thing is that with sci-fi, the franchises are much less overlapping. Only Europeans have broad exposure to Perry Rhodan, only the UK to Starblazer (comics), only anime fans to the Japanese series Star Blazers (anima and manga, unrelated to the UK comic)...Many genres' fans are fans of the genre as a whole. That's less true of Sci-Fi, since it has become a clade, a catch-all for a bunch of very different genres. Military SF is disctintly different from Trek/Orville, or from social SF like much of the early Cyberpunk short stories....Fantasy is also a clade. But by not taking the standard, almost defining, trope of being in Terran History's future, Fantasy frees itself from many verisimilitude breaking constraints.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8251374, member: 6779310"] No, because your making a false equivalence here. The similar distance from each other on the tropes and setting elements don't make up for the difference in visibility, nor in those being widely accepted as defaults. Fantasy has a much lower bar for verisimilitude in many people's views. It is my experience that Fantasy fans are more accepting of multiple fandoms than sci-fi fans, and that this because they don't get verisimilitude in many subgenres. The thing is that with sci-fi, the franchises are much less overlapping. Only Europeans have broad exposure to Perry Rhodan, only the UK to Starblazer (comics), only anime fans to the Japanese series Star Blazers (anima and manga, unrelated to the UK comic)... Many genres' fans are fans of the genre as a whole. That's less true of Sci-Fi, since it has become a clade, a catch-all for a bunch of very different genres. Military SF is disctintly different from Trek/Orville, or from social SF like much of the early Cyberpunk short stories.... Fantasy is also a clade. But by not taking the standard, almost defining, trope of being in Terran History's future, Fantasy frees itself from many verisimilitude breaking constraints. [/QUOTE]

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