mikandra (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mikandra) wrote in macdibble, |
This heartens me.
I've recently been thinking that there's been such a focus on fantasy in publishing, that sooner or later the pendulum has got to swing back to something else. Within SFF, science fiction is the obvious choice. Just like people like their magician novels, I very much doubt the market for 'first-contact'- type novels is completely dead, never-to-be-resurrected type dead. I tend to call this 'futuristic fantasy'. The science in fantasy is history. In SF it's biology. I honestly don't see that much difference between the genres; they both contain copious amounts of made-up BS ;-) And as for the old stalwart: who says SF doesn't or even can't have good characterisation?
Yay for science fiction!
I've recently been thinking that there's been such a focus on fantasy in publishing, that sooner or later the pendulum has got to swing back to something else. Within SFF, science fiction is the obvious choice. Just like people like their magician novels, I very much doubt the market for 'first-contact'- type novels is completely dead, never-to-be-resurrected type dead. I tend to call this 'futuristic fantasy'. The science in fantasy is history. In SF it's biology. I honestly don't see that much difference between the genres; they both contain copious amounts of made-up BS ;-) And as for the old stalwart: who says SF doesn't or even can't have good characterisation?
Yay for science fiction!
