SF Signal: MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction …
Posted by Mlacak on 8th January , 2008To clarify: stuff like Revelation Space is science fiction ; stuff like star wars and the night’s dawn is science fantasy . Pure Fantasy is any fiction that has supernatural stuff, but no technology beyond our own level. … Stories like ‘ Star Wars’, ‘Independence Day’ and the like are easy it to identify as Sci-Fi , but what about George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, is that Sci-Fi or Sci- fantasy ? In truth its neither, it’s a political commentary on communism and totalitarian …