> > > What is the main difference between science fiction, and fantasy writing? Is there a distinction that seperates the two? I am wondering, because it just always seems to me that the two genres are grouped together. Anyone have any ideas?
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> > I've always thought of it as SciFi can happen and very well might.
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> > Fantasy is a stretch of the imagination and almost positively will never happen.
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> > Drac "Am I right?" imas
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> I agree.
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Well, that's the basic idea anyway. Science Fiction is generally placed in a futuristic environment and focuses around technology that is not available right now, but might be able to be explained and perhaps even invented someday. Although Science Fiction can contain life on other planets, completely whacked-out ideas, and other such things, there is nothing in them that is mythological or supernatural.

Fantasy, on the other hand, often contains mythological creatures such as dragons, unicorns, and rocs. Also, fantasy often contains the use of magic. Environments created do not have to comply with physical laws, nor does anything else, for that matter. Stangly enough, most fantasy environments seem to be very natural with few towns and people, more or less like the environments of the middle ages.

Personally, I like a combination of the two, but that wasn't a choice on the reader poll. (and the reason that they are sometimes combined is that some elements may be either sci-fi or fantasy, like time travel, strange animals, or in some cases the creation of magic through the use of technology.

That's what I think, anyway.

-Ka"Then again, maybe magic really does exist and we just don't know it"z!