 Fantasy: February 11, 2009 Issue [#2884] |
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Science Fiction versus Fantasy
All the books get lumped together at the bookstores, and often the same authors write on both sides of this fence. Overlapping tales incorporating pieces of each blur the line even more. Some die-hard fans fight tooth and nail (literally, at Cons) about which is right, but identifying your work helps find the right audience.
Fantasy might be best described as making the impossible happen. Creatures known not to exist, mind powers, and magic come to mind. Often rustic settings are involved. This genre takes these things and plunges in without an explanation of how things got there, though rules are established within the story.
Science Fiction is grounded in scientific theory, somewhere. Star travel, engineering feats, and alien cultures are sprinkled throughout and the future is explored through choices that started near the current time. Many explore the how based off what we know now and things that may or may not be developed because of today’s science.
Don’t stop there. Authors are creating worlds and telling tales that involve both aspects of speculative fiction. It becomes more difficult to choose where the market is for your story if you insist on mixing them, but so many great stories come from adding an impossible element to an otherwise science fiction story, or known science to a fantasy.
So what will you market the story as when you finish it? What will it be classified as if and when it makes it to the bookstore? Usually the tone of the beginning sets up the reader. After that, elements introduced at later times might muddy the waters in your mind, but the reader will already have it firmly in mind which genre the story is in. It shouldn’t stop a writer from bringing the story imagined in the mind to paper. |
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Feedback from my last Newsletter:
Seisa-sleepingcatbooks.com  says: Thanks for featuring Chapter 1 of Out of the Labyrinth! 
Isn't that the way to encourage you to finish it?
Robert Waltz  says: Storm, thank you for having the extreme good taste to feature one of my stories in your newsletter. Oh, yeah, and your editorial about scene-setting was good too.
Why, thank you!
billwilcox says: Seshie! Great thoughts on setting the scene. I'd call you about it, but the damn stagehand won't bring me a phone! 
You really ought to train them better. They run wild if you don't watch them. |
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