[Rat]

The line is so often blurred. At sites like Elfwood and Epilogue, they say "fantasy and sci-fi" art. But what is fantasy? Can't it be anything? Anything we percieve could be called fantasy, not just faeries, elves and the lot. Fantasy, in my mind, could be a daydream, maybe just thinking about becoming an author...couldn't that be fantasy? It's not real (at least not at the moment), and neither are centaurs and merfolk.

Sci-fi is also the same way. Twenty years ago, the Internet would've/could've been science fiction, but now it's reality.

Ergh.

[Coaster]

I think that people create fantasy as an alternative to reality, where the idea is not to care whether or not if its conceivable or not.

So people would just base fantasies on whats not possible at the moment. 20 years ago people wanted a communcations system thing that would allow better communication between everybody, so people would dream up stuff like that.

Now thats its a reality people are dreaming about what such a mass communcational system would be like if it worked.

[Nilwort]

I think sci-fi is sort of like fantasy, except it trys to follow the laws of science more that traditional fantasy does hence the name "sci-fi"...may as well even call it "science-fantasy"...Allthough I agree with you that anything can be fantasy.

If you want to look at it from a book-oriented point of view, on average sci-fi deals with aliens and space ships or future utopias and fantasy deals with elves and magical forrests and wizzards and stuff. But, for the most part, the point of both of the categories remains the same, to escape from the real crappy world and go to a different place and experience things as a different person, or something like that.

(edit)geeeergh typos

[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Nilwort ]

[Nilwort]

oops, that was wierd...double post

[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Nilwort ]