Science Fiction vs Fantasy
- Elvis Best
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Re: Science Fiction vs Fantasy
- Ellylion
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> I have read much more fantasy than science fiction. As I was reading
> [i]Zona[/i], I kept waiting for the science fiction, and it really didn't
> appear until halfway through the book. Is that normal for science fiction
> books?
>
> And when it finally did appear, as prehistoric animals and different
> hormones and chemicals and vegetation, at first I was like, is that all
> there is? With fantasy, magic or unusual things appear very quickly, within
> the first few pages, and then there's tons of other occurrences. I think
> one could even argue that the science fiction elements weren't really
> science fiction at all, we are always discovering new animals and plants in
> the jungles and other areas that haven't been fully explored yet.
>
> What did you think about the science fiction in this book? Is the type and
> amount of science fiction typical for books in this category?
I guess, prehistoric animals, living in some different conditions, could be classified as science fiction. The main question here is what made their existence possible, in my opinion.
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> I felt this book was of the science fiction genre. Although it did not jump
> in to the true science fiction elements right away, the beginning half of
> the story offered a good build up for the plot and what was to come. This
> book reminded me much of the Jurassic Park world.
I agree. This book feels more of a science fiction genre due to all the sci-fi parts in the second half, especially the hormones and so on working its way into the book.
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Something like H.G. Wells [i]The Time Traveler[/i] is a good borderline example. Quite frankly, the majority of the book is very fanciful and almost borderline nonsense in my opinion, but the main focus of the book is scientific inquiry.
Space novels seem to be the exception for this (not perhaps always justifiably). Someone previously mentioned [i]Star Wars[/i], which really should space-fantasy or just fantasy (or as was previously stated a “space-opera”). Yet, because it takes place in space, it seems to become automatically classified as sci-fi.
I do think that with the strange animal telecommunication and some other unexplored questions, [i]Zona[/i] was bordering fantasy rather than sci-fi, but similar to [i]The Time Traveler[/i], it focuses on scientific inquiry. So, perhaps it does better fit in sci-fi.
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> I did not know I liked it, either, and have trouble differentiating the two
> as well. So would stories like Star Wars be sci-fi or fantasy, or both?
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> As for the Zone, stories about a strange place with ancient animals have
> been popular since the 19th century. The very first book about such a place
> was "The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this book, the
> characters find a strange place in the forests of South America, where
> dinosaurs and ape-like people live. This book is considered science
> fiction.
>
> However, such stories could only be considered true sci-fi during the time
> of Arthur Conan Doyle. Now, the Earth is too well studied. Siberia is very
> large, but even in Siberia one can hardly find such a place. Therefore,
> "Zone" should be called surreal sci-fi or something like that.
You also have Jules Verne's " Journey to the Centre of the Earth." More modern sci-fi often has references to parellel worlds that exist in the same space and can be accessed through some sort of portal. Perhaps if the author had alluded to something like that it would have strengthen the sci-fi aspect of the book and made it seem less like fantasy.
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I don't read a lot of science-fiction, but I really don't believe this is a trend for the genre.
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