Fantasy or scifi?

[frrsoffiati]

What does agree you most? An old-fashioned medieval fantasy or a futuristic scifi? I am more into medieval fantasy.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Well At the End of the World by William Morris

Jurgen a Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

The High Crusade by Paul Anderson


I like both.

 

[mosaix]

Welcome to the Chrons @frrsoffiati.

You'll find one or two similar threads have lead to much discussion.

SF for me.

 

[BAYLOR]

Welcome to the Chrons @frrsoffiati.

You'll find one or two similar threads have lead to much discussion.

SF for me.

Only one or two ? I think there's slightly more then that .

 

[BAYLOR]

The Dark World by Henry Kuttner a sci/fansy novel with most usual protagonist
Black Gods Kiss by C L Moore This book contains all of her .wonderful Jirel of Joiry Medieval Swordsman stories .

 

[JimC]

Verbal images in Jirel stories are best of all time.

 

[Parson]

SF for me. The Honor Harrington series is about as good as it gets.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Dark World by Henry Kuttner a sci/fansy novel with most usual protagonist
Black Gods Kiss by C L Moore This book contains all of her .wonderful Jirel of Joiry Medieval Swordsman stories .

Jirel of Joiry Typo , it should be Swordswoman . My bad.

 

[Elckerlyc]

SF.
Fantasy on itself is fine, but I am done with the medieval element.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Both.

 

[nixie]

Fantasy for me. I do occasionally read SCI-FI.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I usually prefer fantasy, but I've read too many medieval fantasy books and find myself yearning for a more modern or creative setting in fantasy. Now that I've read this more stereotypical kind of fantasy, I'd probably go with futuristic sci-fi.

 

[Wayne Mack]

Would it be more correct to categorize space opera as future-based fantasy or science fiction?

 

[KiraAnn]

In my book, science fiction.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I find that a lot of SF has elements of fantasy, but not so much the other way around.

I also find that in the Challenges I am far more likely to write something that is fantasy, horror and/or comedy.

If there was one tv series that I would have to watch forever and ever it would be Red Dwarf. If there was one book I had to read forever and ever it would be LOTR.

So my decision is this: if its literature it's fantasy, and if its visual its SF.

 

[THX1138]

SF for me.
Not too much into F except on the lighter side and styles.
But I will say that there are some SF that go a bit far for me as well.

 

[Omits]

Welcome to the Chrons @frrsoffiati.

You'll find one or two similar threads have lead to much discussion.

SF for me.

It's good and necessary to re-explore questions. Things move on and new members like to get involved in current debates.