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MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I guess I’m the odd one out then. I’m a huge Sci-Fi fan. Ender’s Game still stands as my favorite book after all these years. But I’m not too crazy about fantasy. I’ve bounced off of books, shows, and movies that my friends and family loved. They just seemed to be mediocre stories with fantasy paint on it and people who like Wizards were able to gloss over the holes.

It’s not unheard of for people to not be interested in the other genre. But those people are outnumbered by consumers who just want the new thing.

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tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

People might have a preference, sure, but that’s not what’s happening in Split Fiction; the game makes it seem like sci-fi writers think fantasy isn’t a form of legitimate artistic expression, and vice versa. It’s hard to imagine any fan of either genre today being that hardline about the other.

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- Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  the game makes it seem like sci-fi writers
  
  What? No, it’s just Mio.
  
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tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There’s nothing wrong with that. I tend to lean more to sci-fi myself. But the premise argues that it and fantasy are somehow different, when they’re not. It’s a criticizes generative AI, which is valid, but doesn’t question why the two genres have to be at odds when it obviously has a blend of both.

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- MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I feel that Sci-Fi and Fantasy are different. Especially enough to be seen as two different genres.
  
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  - Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Tell that to everything I like, star trek is fantasy adjacent, star wars too, all of chinese fantasy (especially the movies) are technically fantasy but have so much stuff that works like scifi just using magic engines and shit, low magic matches epic scifi, its literally just is science driving the cool thing or is magic, its set dressing, it can be swapped. Harry potter can be the same story but with a scifi setting, idk what im even saying im rambling at this point.
    
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    qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Have you considered that everything you like is just some level of sci-fantasy (an existing genre[-fusion])?
    
    They are both under the umbrella of “speculative fiction” but they go in different directions.
    
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  - DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Depends on the sci-fi and depends on the Fantasy!
    
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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Check out Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.
Ender’s Game was my favorite book for many years but I can’t recommend Card’s books any more.
Luckily, Some Desperate Glory ticks all the boxes and then some.

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