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By: Steven Klotz

Steven Klotz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:48:04 +0000

I love seeing this concept of stacking books being explored. My frustration/ fascination with categorization of the fiction I like to read led me to a delightful solution. Multidimensional stacks! And I figured, that’s pretty much what people are creating when they label things with a whole bunch of tags.

Anyway, after some number crunching I have a pretty decent prototype. Check out the western TagShadow, as it’s vaguely applicable to the cowboys in space example and for an elaboration of my “multidimensional shelves” concept, you can check out this post

By: Blue Tyson

Blue Tyson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:45:53 +0000

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2000AD’s Fiends Of the Eastern Front! Vampire Nazis! (in comics and novels.)

By: Hillsy

Hillsy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:55:23 +0000

Hi James, Matt

I’m always fascinated by the SF/F debate, mainly because I’m attempting to write ‘Science Fantasy’ myself (mainly having dabbled in SF and Fantasy seperately and found I missed the other one too much..hehe) and we can always learn more about the genre.

Personally though, I think there’s actually as much of a style distinction between the two as there is a simple content divide (though I’d loooove to see bookshops try and implement THAT!). Sci-fi tends to have a very stark, serious overtone, leant to it I’m sure by the vast figures and ideas involved and the often dystopic consequences of galactic colonisation. Even the space operas (even something as wonderful as Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn Trilogy) have that sense that everything is just a quiet hum against a much vaster silence.

Fantasy, on the other hand, seems to never shut up. Even something, morose and harsh (something like Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy - which I adore) seems to carry a white noise, like the constant creak of leather armour, the scuff and snuffle of horses, and other bad analogies. It’s like the worlds are just either a science to be penetrated, or fantastical and to be awed.

There’s other things - the plodding fireside manner of Fantasy compared to the sometimes chaotic and aloof voice of sci-fi, for example - but I think the stylised divisions of SF and Fant arn’t challenged enough in an attempt to cross genres. Perhaps this is what makes Star Wars so brilliant, take The Force out of the story and it’s still an honest to god Fantasy story, just set in space. Dune, though I couldn’t get on with them (the prescience to be precise), had a style that honestly could sit in both camps.

I’d like to get your guys thoughts on why the tropes and traps of these genres arn’t discarded more often (why more prophesy? Why god, why???) and why such potential influences such as Manga, Star Wars, Final Fantasy, haven’t produced the flood of Science Fantasy novels that something like Lord of The Rings and Star Trek managed to do?

Or am I just reading the wrong novels??…hehe