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Hi! I'm Robert Waltz , your Fantasy guest editor for the week!
What is it that distinguishes fantasy from other genres? After all, fantasy stories can incorporate other standard genres; usually action/adventure, but often romance, mystery or science fiction, and sometimes others. I think the thing that sets fantasy off as its own genre is world creation.
Other writers are content with the world we have here, but not a fantasy writer. Fantasy writers have to go and make their own - worlds that maybe bear some resemblance to our own, but differ to one degree or another. Maybe it's our world, with the addition of magic. Maybe it's "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away."
So how, then, does fantasy differ from science fiction? Both genres can involve world creation, of course. Is it that fantasy has magic while science fiction has technology? Well, that may be a textbook but, ultimately, unimportant distinction; after all, as science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Clarke's Third Law)
One author who has delved into both genres, and several others as well, is Orson Scott Card. At a book signing I attended, he explained the difference between fantasy and science fiction thus: "Just look at the picture on the cover: Fantasy has trees. Science fiction has rivets."
In the end, though, discussions of genre should never get in the way of a good story! |
Some of these picks blur genre distinctions; some are just good reads. Enjoy!
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