Writing Fantasy vs Supernatural

[Deleted member 84247]

Not always. A lot of sci-fi uses existing science and just jumps the scale out to interstellar or galactic levels.
Thinking about it, 2001 was a bad example because the Monoliths are very 3rd law. I just wasn't thinking about them.

'Real' sci-fi is colony ships traveling for a hundred years to reach their new home, or asteroid miners flying around prospecting the belt. Things that could literally happen with modern tech, if people really wanted to.

A classic debate

 

[Deleted member 113259]

Fantasy is pretty much anything that's made up. Typically with magic.

Supernatural: 'Super' Natural. If nature or reality is being slightly enhanced, but not broken, it's supernatural.

Supernatural is a subgenre of Fantasy- except when it's actually a subgenre of Mystery. The distinction being that the ghosts turn out to be a logical and natural part of the world once they're understood.

There's nothing stopping you from having both tags, even if you're using a typical LotR fantasy world.


Star wars is a space opera, not sci fi. Just because the jedi use magic doesn't mean HAL 9000 is a magical golem.

You know what? I concede, AI is the one original thing sci-fi has. Though fantasy could do something similar with golems and ghosts, especially when the AI is B.S. like Star Trek. My main point is that anything fantastical and out of the ordinary is fantasy, space Odyssey is actually pretty grounded in reality so while technically science based fiction doesn't seem like most of sci-fi.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

'Real' sci-fi is colony ships traveling for a hundred years to reach their new home, or asteroid miners flying around prospecting the belt. Things that could literally happen with modern tech, if people really wanted to.

What like using cryosleep? That's fantasy texhnology. Asteroid mining has never occurred before, it's hypothetical. Still fantasy until it happens.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

What like using cryosleep? That's fantasy texhnology. Asteroid mining has never occurred before, it's hypothetical. Still fantasy until it happens.

sci-fi can also be hypothetical future developments (By google's definition)

 

[Cipiteca396]

What like using cryosleep? That's fantasy texhnology. Asteroid mining has never occurred before, it's hypothetical. Still fantasy until it happens.

No. Not cryosleep. Just live on a ship, and die, and hope your children reach a new home.

As for 'hypothetical'. You could hypothetically take a bath, but really, that's never gonna happen. Purely the realm of fantasy.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

No. Not cryosleep. Just live on a ship, and die, and hope your children reach a new home.

As for 'hypothetical'. You could hypothetically take a bath, but really, that's never gonna happen. Purely the realm of fantasy.

I guess since its devolved into insults it's time to end my involvement.