Fantasy: January 17, 2007 Issue [#1491]
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

Is the world getting you down? Tired of the same old thing? Bored with the people around you? Well, why not try creating your own brilliant world, new and fascinating things, and interesting people? And why limit yourself to people?


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Letter from the editor

Hi! I'm Waltz Invictus Author Icon, 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!


Editor's Picks

Some of these picks blur genre distinctions; some are just good reads. Enjoy!

Starship Sentry Open in new Window. (E)
Two stories, two genres, read it once and get "new eyes" to read it again.
#745226 by Jack Goldman Author IconMail Icon


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The Love Potion Open in new Window. (13+)
A fantasy tale of misdirected love and enchantment
#1187142 by TimM Author IconMail Icon


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#664212 by Not Available.


 Purple People Open in new Window. (E)
Account of alien abduction. No a's allowed.
#968051 by BeHereBook Author IconMail Icon


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Manitou Island Open in new Window. (13+)
Wolf demons, wind giants, mystical dreams...an original serial fantasy.
#160091 by Tehuti, Lord Of The Eight Author IconMail Icon

 
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