I am developing a theory, in much the same way one might a gallstone, that fantasy is different from science fiction in that it doesn't try to convince you its world is plausible. Or at least doesn't have to.
It's not that fantasy worlds aren't plausible, it's that a fantasy can just dump its world in front of you and go "there it is". An SF story has to earn your belief.
SF is tackled with a hovercraft of disbelief; fantasy gets a flying carpet.
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Date: August 31st, 2009 10:29 pm (UTC)From:It's not that fantasy worlds aren't plausible, it's that a fantasy can just dump its world in front of you and go "there it is". An SF story has to earn your belief.
SF is tackled with a hovercraft of disbelief; fantasy gets a flying carpet.
This is not helpful.