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Post by ==XerXes== on Oct 22, 2005 17:03:49 GMT -5
My idea of fantasy is place where the impossible becomes possible !!!!
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Post by FantasyLover on Oct 22, 2005 22:54:07 GMT -5
But that's also the same for sci-fi. What is it specifically that makes fantasy unique to you?
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Post by oblivion on Oct 26, 2005 0:48:06 GMT -5
Lowest common denominator: Science fiction is about technology. Fantasy is about magic.
This falls apart because both SF and F are about people in situations we can relate to, but that are significantly different from what we experience. And there are hundreds - maybe thousands of novels and short stories that fall somewhere in the middle space between SF and F. For instance, how should we categorize the Darkover novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley? Or That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis?
Does it matter whether we call a particular attribute magic or telekinesis?
Science is what we've figured out. Magic is what we don't understand. Science Fiction plays around with what we don't quite currently understand but that we expect to possibly one day understand completely. Fantasy often spells out the working rules for something we don't understand. We still don't understand WHY it works, but we may come away with an understanding of HOW the author wants it to work.
The lines are blurred almost beyond recognition in some novels. I guess what matters is whether it's a rip-roaring story, not what genre I can assign it to.
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Post by ==XerXes== on Oct 27, 2005 15:06:40 GMT -5
yep, oblivion makes a lot of sense, at the end of the day fantasy is not real so like anything impossible or unexplained wether sci-fi or not is a fantasy.
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Post by Zarokachsti on Nov 10, 2005 3:06:03 GMT -5
I find that fantasy can be anything, whether it be technology or magic. In my opinion, fantasy is the imagination of one being, and sci-fi in my opinion, describes a type of fantasy. A fantasy is also described as a dream, something you long for, well the future can fall under that category. So really, I find it to be about anything you can imagine.
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Post by elspethndarkwind on Dec 23, 2005 22:21:33 GMT -5
Fantasy to me is anything, written or otherwise, that can take you to another place. I know this is a rather broad definition so i shall be more specific. Fantasy is not just charaterized by the types of characters. It is also seperated from other genres by the fact that it comes from the author's own imagination. And even more than that, they're writing their own world, not the visions of others or the lives others. This allows you to see exactly what you and the author see not just the author as in sci-fi.
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Post by morris on May 27, 2006 8:43:49 GMT -5
Fantasy only exists until it becomes a reality. It is said that no matter what man can think he can make it become a reality. It wasn't much more then just a few generations that wagon wheel tracks created the pathways to the west. Who could of imagined at that time that just a few short years we have made those tracks of slow moving oxen into multi lane concrete slabs with speeds of excess of 80 miles per hour. In comparison how slow 80 MPH is when man can travel in access of 16,000 miles per hour just a few miles above the surface of our earth. My belief is that it will someday become a reality that we will have the ability to be anywhere one wants to be in a matter of seconds. Computers will become obsolete in a few centurys bringing forth another way of thinking that will make this day that we are exiting within in the future some very dark ages. We are finite beings within infinity. Imagination brings forth only temporary fantacy that will someday be born from it another reality . It is only our finite thinking within infinity that makes fantacy only seem to exist.
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Post by x226 on Jun 26, 2006 16:17:45 GMT -5
fantasy is merely what you make of it, it could be exploring the vast deepness of space to wondering what lies in your backyard ( without looking of course) fantasy could be anything
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Post by ylrebmik on Aug 23, 2006 19:21:25 GMT -5
Fantasy is everything we haven't found yet.
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Post by FantasyLover on Aug 30, 2006 0:39:21 GMT -5
Ah, but wouldn't that be science fiction?
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Post by elspethndarkwind on Aug 30, 2006 10:00:15 GMT -5
fantasy, to me, is anything that couldn't happen in our modern world. magic, elves all that stuff, is fantasy to me. anything ot deal with technology is considered sci fi for me.
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Post by Eazename on Sept 14, 2006 4:36:09 GMT -5
fantasy, based on reality is - if i'm wrong, correct me- science fiction. There is no more to it.... I cannot think of something else! Fantasy as being something impossible, not seen yet? You are keeping secrets from me? That's not fun.... ~EaZeNaMe~
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Post by norquin on Sept 14, 2006 17:16:51 GMT -5
Fantasy!!!...........is Dreamworld............and the most pleasant place to be!!!!
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Post by survivor69 on Sept 29, 2006 11:27:03 GMT -5
Fantacy is a state of mind where one is pretending he is having an experience that does't really exist, day-dreaming in other words.
Science Fiction is going out of (beyond) the limits of the reality of proven scientific guidelines. Ex: Aliens, ghosts, etc.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2006 17:51:22 GMT -5
To me, fantasy is just pure imagination put to paper. That's fantasy to me.
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