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.
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).
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
lasers & space ships > swords & horses
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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?
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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.
Originally Posted by Fynn
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.
It would seem to me that fantasy is a subgenre of fiction, like science fiction is.
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