From Change.org:
What is Science Fantasy (SciFan)?
“Science Fantasy (SciFan) is a genre that fuses magical and technological elements in an elegant way in order to create worlds that inspire the imagination.Science Fantasy (SciFan) is a genre that is often ignored.”
Not too many people are familiar with the genre, but it was originally coined in the late 1930’s by John W. Campbell, Jr. in his magazine that was (ironically) entitled Unknown.
The Science Fiction genre is often defined as the improbable made possible, whereas the Fantasy genre is commonly defined as the impossible made probable. So then, what is Science Fantasy (SciFan)? Fellow author Ricardo Victoria defines it best as: “A genre that blends fantastic and scientific elements into a coherent worldbuild to tell a story in a more interesting and flexible way.”
Please sign the Change.org petition, and help give Science Fantasy the recognition it deserves. Thank you!
After reading the petition I now realize that Star Wars is actually science fantasy, but I assume Star Trek is science fiction because it doesn’t have fantasy elements.
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Robert Kirkendall,
I’d agree with both of those assessments.
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Signed and shared your post on Twitter…don’t have a FB account.
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MC Clark,
And I thank you!
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You’re welcome…I have a pretty good idea you’ll get enough signatures.
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Reblogged this on Claudia Blood and commented:
Good Reads has it. It makes sense. 🙂
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I had no idea this wasn’t already a genre. Terrible, Amazon.
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