31st July 2004, 9:20 PM
Sci-fi's fine, as to me it's just another fantasy world, only with science instead of magic generally (yeah, to me, they are pretty much interchangeble..., I play a lot of Final Fantasy where both genres coexist in an awesome way so...). The way I see it, both are fantastical worlds where the laws of physics are different than the real world. Whether it's elves or aliens, it's the same to me, so all that matters is a good story.
Now, I've heard some things about this, actually just the name, but from what you say, it sounds interesting... Thing is, I've been burned by recent fiction... (honestly, I gotta call the entirety of the genres something that distinguishes it from fiction that could actually occur in the real world, so I'll just call them both fantasy...), so it's hard for me to get into some of it. I tend to kinda be stuck in the past by about a century or more here :D.
Now, I've heard some things about this, actually just the name, but from what you say, it sounds interesting... Thing is, I've been burned by recent fiction... (honestly, I gotta call the entirety of the genres something that distinguishes it from fiction that could actually occur in the real world, so I'll just call them both fantasy...), so it's hard for me to get into some of it. I tend to kinda be stuck in the past by about a century or more here :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)