1. I'm always amazed at critics (ahem Darko Suvin cough cough) who argue science fiction is superior to fantasy. In truth, science fiction is a branch of fantasy.
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2. Stepping back: in societies where everyone believes in magic, fantasy isn't a separate genre. It's just storytelling.
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3. The Odyssey when first recited wasn't fantasy, it was storytelling. Nor were Beowulf or the Divine Comedy "fantasies"
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Hold on: are we sure contemporary audiences read (or listened to) those texts literally?
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They wouldn't have made the distinction between literal and non-literal reading. That requires the scientific method.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Plato didn’t take the Homeric stories literally. (Though he complained that a lot of people still did.)
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But, for this argument, it's significant that Plato didn't see stories as "fantasy" either. He saw them as lies. Didn't have a category for fantasy/fiction.
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