http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/24/comic-con-carl-speed-mcneil-on-the-difference-or-lack-thereof-between-fantasy-and-scifi/ The science of futurist technologies—and an excuse to soak in sci-fi TV shows, books, movies, toys, and video games. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/24/comic-con-carl-speed-mcneil-on-the-difference-or-lack-thereof-between-fantasy-and-scifi/comment-page-1/#comment-11754 Eric Wolff Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:13:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1456#comment-11754 My understanding of what she said is that it's all about the origins of the story. Super hero stories are more often about politics, or sociology, but they have sciencey stuff thrown in, like the bits about being from space. Where as hard SciFi imagines a world if current science continues on its current trajectory, or a world in which certain rules can be broken. My understanding of what she said is that it’s all about the origins of the story. Super hero stories are more often about politics, or sociology, but they have sciencey stuff thrown in, like the bits about being from space. Where as hard SciFi imagines a world if current science continues on its current trajectory, or a world in which certain rules can be broken.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/07/24/comic-con-carl-speed-mcneil-on-the-difference-or-lack-thereof-between-fantasy-and-scifi/comment-page-1/#comment-11729 Rhacodactylus Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:13:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=1456#comment-11729 Hmmm, I really wish I was out there, I would love to get her to elaborate on Superman as a work of fantasy not SciFi. As a general rule, I would put most works featuring extra terrestrials in the SciFi category, but tonally Superman is clearly distinct from most of the members of that group, even though it would technically fall there. Hmmm, I really wish I was out there, I would love to get her to elaborate on Superman as a work of fantasy not SciFi. As a general rule, I would put most works featuring extra terrestrials in the SciFi category, but tonally Superman is clearly distinct from most of the members of that group, even though it would technically fall there.

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