I’m not sure when it was written, but I ran across this list of the best science fiction and fantasy books this century, and I resonated with the ones I’ve read, so I thought I’d see what others thought of it. Have you read many of them?

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Someone once said that fantasy is a made up world where the author creates the constraints, and science fiction is a made up world where physics creates the constraints. I kind of like that definition.

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      1 year ago

      For hard sci-fi I agree, but for soft one the difference becomes more and more tenuous.

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        1 year ago

        Which is why I disagree with the people saying SF and fantasy don’t belong together. Some soft SF is basically fantasy set in space, or whatever.