Depends on the sci-fi and depends on the Fantasy!
Comment on Sci-fi and fantasy are at odds in Split Fiction, which makes no sense
MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks agoI feel that Sci-Fi and Fantasy are different. Especially enough to be seen as two different genres.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 5 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.
qarbone@lemmy.world 5 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.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 5 weeks ago
Yeah, stuff like venture bros, tom strong, etc. with science heroes, next to fantasy stuff, shows how its pretty much the same stuff just different devices, science fiction explanations are as realistic as fantasy explanations for how things function, its all bs and not real science typically either way, I love hard magic where they explain it like its science and theres a deep logic to the world and how everything works. Like brandon sanderson stuff