No. It’s not going to happen. Sometime over thanksgiving a minor discomfort became a raging ear infection. I got antibiotics on Friday and I’m much better, but the mind hasn’t come back on line yet. Sorry.
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Take care of yourself first!!!!
Please get better! (Not to put pressure on you or anything.)
Get well soon!
Get better.
:: Looks around :: Virtual drinks are on me! What shall we talk about?
Oooo! I know! I l know! Science fiction has FTL, Fantasy has Magic. So really, there’s no difference at all. What do you guys think?
I think that there is a good reason that science fiction and fantasy are grouped together as a genre.
Oh, wait. Um… obviously science fiction is for exploring serious ideas and fantasy is more a Mary Sue type of thing where one imagines herself a barbarian warrior queen or discovers secret magical powers.
(Trying to do my part.)
Which could help explain space opera — like fantasy, space opera uses advanced technology (space flitters, blasters, even planet busters and such) for FUN! Of course, I’m not sure what to say about science fiction such as Hoka, Hoka, Hoka. There’s certainly room in science fiction for Mary Sue and other enjoyable speculation. It’s not all serious ideas and dystopias at 10 decades.
“It’s not all serious ideas and dystopias at 10 decades.”
And thank goodness, that’s true. 😉
we might be at the point of cracking ftl. Well, teleportation of sorts. Robert has been following it.
Some of the quantum entanglement signaling experiments are the next best thing to high tech precognition, or a hint that direction, anyway. And all the theories about membranes and parallel worlds. How many things will get shifted from “utterly absurd fantasy nonsense,” to “might be,” to “on sale at Best Buy” as we keep up the steep slope of tech innovation?
And, as far as writing is concerned, it’s extremely similar. A handwavium to put our characters in the setting we want to write in.
Somewhere I’ve seen someone drawing a line between systematic magic, which is closer to science, and what I think of as dabbler magic, where the magic just seems to be dabbed on wherever needed, without any thought of making it consistent and sensible? Fantasy clearly has both kinds, and sometimes the dabbler magic even offers a depth of mystery and wonder because it isn’t restricted to understandable systems, but… I guess part of this might be whether you prefer orderly systems or chaotic systems, sort of. Anyway…
I hope you’ll feel better soon, Sarah. Sorry the sinus infection went to the ears. Glad your antibiotics are working; on the third course of ’em here, and I’m not sure _this_ course is doing much good, either. (Though I’m no worse and was able to get a bunch of stuff done, so there is that. Maybe it’s just improving so slowly that I can’t see it?)
I’ll be interested to see scientific bases for teleportation, etc. I can kinda/sorta see one for telepathy, but I’m not sure I can explain it (definitely not now — need rest and must take final antibiotic of the day). Empathy has been scientifically proven to a degree, even if its usage isn’t exactly the way fantasy authors tend to use it (myself included) . . . hm.