Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Sci Fi vs. Fantasy

So I was thinking about how creative all of our Sci-fi stories have been so far and I've decided that in general Sci-fi is more innovative/creative/immaginative than Fantasy. I'm not saying that the genre of fantasy is old and boring; it is by far my favorite genre. I do think though that of the material we read in Andy's dark fantastic course and the material we read now, what we read now is much more immaginative. I know I would never be able to come up with stories like Moon or The Lifecycle of Software Objects (not saying I could ever be Neil Gaiman either so don't crucify me). I also can't really guess what comes next in a lot of the material we've covered so far this year. In some of the material from last year, I had a better guestimate at what would happen. It's not that cloning is a newer idea than dragons and magic. I don't know what exactly makes me think this way. Any opinions? Which is more creative: sci-fi or fantasy?

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