Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 24 hours agoI always get them confused.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1614arrow-down118
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minus-squareSzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-223 hours agoEnders Game instilled the importance of adjusting your frame of reference. What was up can become down. So it’s science fiction but when you consider a collaborative global human response to existential danger it’s fantasy. But the Shadow series shows how quickly we go back to weaponizing and using gifted war trained children as tools of conquest… so realism/horror?
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 hours agoOrson Scott Card actually weighed in on a simple way to determine if something is fantasy or sci-fi since he writes both: The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
Enders Game instilled the importance of adjusting your frame of reference. What was up can become down.
So it’s science fiction but when you consider a collaborative global human response to existential danger it’s fantasy.
But the Shadow series shows how quickly we go back to weaponizing and using gifted war trained children as tools of conquest… so realism/horror?
Orson Scott Card actually weighed in on a simple way to determine if something is fantasy or sci-fi since he writes both: