This evening’s shitposting theme... witchcraft, magick, prayers vs spells etc...
Here’s a unifying diagnostic question: do you have a preference for science fiction over fantasy, and if so why do you think that is given the null hypothesis that both are equally escapist?
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My own response: I read both but I definitely have an extreme science fiction bias.
I’ll eagerly accept a sonic screwdriver and mumbo-jumbo about warp cores and flux capacitors but be mostly indifferent to wands and spells.
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Fantasy stories tend to be superhero chosen one narratives, science fiction something else. I would say from my position in the entertainment field that the audience for fantasy is much more broad than the audience for sci-fi.
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On balance would you call Star Wars sf or f given that it has elements of both?
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Hm, fantasy sounds like the same story told over again and again. Scifi tend to tell different stories every time. Fantasy is just "a wizard did it" dead end. Scifi tends to provoke what-ifs and i-wonder-if-i-can-build-thats. Magic is hard to engineer.
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