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Terry Pratchett (wildly successful author of the Discworld series) once quipped that fantasy is just scifi without the nuts and bolts. I take that as indicatin
by mcphilip 14y ago
Terry Pratchett (wildly successful author of the Discworld series) once quipped that fantasy is just scifi without the nuts and bolts. I take that as indicating that fantansy and scifi are related in that they both create narratives around fictional mechanics. The tropes differ, but they are exploring the similar space of what might happen in a world with mechanics (e.g. magic, 'quantum') allowing completely different set of experiences than the real world.
- vacri 14y agoOrson Scott Card submitted a short story based in a forest to a scifi magazine and was told 'scifi has rivets in it'.
- snowman41 14y agoCould you please post a link of where you heard of this story? I would love to learn what became of it.
- danneu 14y agoJust google his name and "rivets". Looks like it's actually a joking remark Card makes himself to express what it's like to dabble in both sci-fi and fantasy (Card is successful with both). Card maintains that switching genres wasn't a difficult thing for him. He believes that, ultimately, the difference between the two genres is largely on the surface. "Half joking, I was writing to Ben (Bova) about this very subject, and I said, look, fantasy has trees, and science fiction has rivets. That's it, that's all the difference there is, the difference of feel, perception.