There's even a law about it FFS
Apparently you cannot like both Science Fiction and Fantasy. This is because of an irreperable gulf between the two, because obviously one is based on real science and the other is all frippery-la-di-da witches and you're-a-wizard-Harry's.

Which is bollocks, because most sci-fi is just made up, plausibly scientific sounding nonsense that is just there so the author can show off. At best. Quite a lot of it seems to wilfully ignore the laws of physics in order to show something cool.

It's a bloody story, it's MADE UP either way.
(thePontificator, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:36, 6 replies)

I'm rather partial to both
Though you can take Harry Potter and poke him up your arse
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:04, closed)

I'd rather take hermione and...

(Bushcricket, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:12, closed)

Similarly
it gets on my tits when people referring to an SF movie that happens to be based on a reasonably plausible concept say that "it's not science fiction, it's science fact!"
No. It's still fiction.
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:28, closed)

I don't give a fuck if it's SF or Fantasy
A well-written story is a well-written story. I'd rather read anything by Stephen Donaldson than anything by Dan Brown.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:39, closed)

Nowdays the gulf isn't between science fiction and fantasy.
It's between scary vampires and sparkly ones.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:52, closed)

I click.
Mostly for "frippery-la-di-da witches and you're-a-wizard-Harry's".

EDIT: And because I agree and stuff.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 11:27, closed)