High fantasy, but just because I like that it's honest about it's magic being magic, whereas science fiction often features magic masquerading as science.
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High fantasy, but just because I like that it's honest about it's magic being magic, whereas science fiction often features magic masquerading as science.
Easy question. Science fiction.
Because robots.
Also aliens and planets and post-apoc and science.
But mostly robots.
I enjoy Fantasy more than Science Fiction. No real reason, I just do. Both are, in my mind, equally restricting though.
High Fantasy. But this poll is mean.
I love fantasy, but not close to how much I love sci-fi. It is the Best Genre.
My favorite projects (including one I'm writing) combine both. One example is Marvel's Thor. The recent release of Xenoblade Chronicles is another (though I have yet to play it since I don't own a Wii).
lasers & space ships > swords & horses
Fantasy in all it's iterations. Also, the poll is bias since it allows for the variety of sci-fi subgenres but it is limited to High Fantasy which itself is a subgenre of Fantasy. BOO.
What is high fantasy? Fantasy on drugs?
Wikipedia speaks for me!
Basically, LotR. A fantastical setting with big important heroes (mostly) whose goal is to save the world or something like that. It is about bigger issues than personal ones (not that there cannot be person stories just that they are secondary).
High fantasy = LotR.
Low fantasy = Conan.
science fiction (ooh ooh ooh)
double feature
I ended up choosing Science Fiction for the reasons Shorty mentioned. Also, Doctor Who.
Doctor Who, as much as I love it, is a prime example of fantasy in space rather than science fiction. Science and advanced technology is used to wave away so many things in that show. The sonic screwdriver may as well be a magic wand. Don't get me wrong, the show is awesome, but it's exactly an example of why science fiction is really just a subgenre of fantasy in most cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs
It would seem to me that fantasy is a subgenre of fiction, like science fiction is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ouch!