I love fantasy and fictional worlds. They give me freedom to make the entire galaxy pretty much.
What i want to know is what you guys love about each one the most and how it has been for your stories.
For me:
Fantasy: Nothing can beat creative ideas and a good story and fantasy has helped me be able to get this. i love to write worlds i can make, i find it easier when something is done from the start, not using preexisting stuff.
Science fiction: I'm a big fan of futuristic technology and the world they live in. They can be slightly limiting but i love having something like a giant plasma launcher or a robot that can change and hold people as a suit. I really love this, and when its on other planets and space
@The Virtual Shadow, Fantasy:When you write a fantasy, their are so many different possibilities to choose from. Your book is like a blank canvas. Even if it you're using as a side genre.
Fantasy:I like how we can do many things with this genre.So many ideas and basically you can create your own world.
Science fiction:I love when it involves space and planets because I love astronomy.Most of scifi has a thrilling plot and someone's vision of the future.
@lightofshadows,
What does the future hold will the earth be desolate or overcrowded
How will they live will animal's be hunted to extinction
Im working on a few sc fi books but if anyone wants to join forces and write somthing between us im up for that
@lightofshadows, Generally the elements I use tend to come from both genres. Some of the elements are borderline fantasy, but executed in a science fiction way.
Electronic telepathy, a program on a computer that remote views a target. Except it's based on actual remote viewing in military style remote viewing. For example. Like in Magnet Girl Wireless, it's essentially a biohacker that repurposes remote viewing for use in secret surveillance operations against her government. She uses magnets to disrupt electronics.
I enjoy science fiction because you can explore cool scientific options that only have a semblance of being possible in our world and our time. You can use parallels between the sci-fi world and our world and communicate difficult ideas though a different lens.
Fantasy is cool because you can create new rules, and like above, speak on important issues with a different perspective.
I love the world-building and falling into something that has never existed. I also love following around well-built characters that make you love or hate them just by being themselves. Fantasy stories for me are forgetting the rest of the world and completely losing your self in another.
What i want to know is what you guys love about each one the most and how it has been for your stories.
For me:
Fantasy: Nothing can beat creative ideas and a good story and fantasy has helped me be able to get this. i love to write worlds i can make, i find it easier when something is done from the start, not using preexisting stuff.
Science fiction: I'm a big fan of futuristic technology and the world they live in. They can be slightly limiting but i love having something like a giant plasma launcher or a robot that can change and hold people as a suit. I really love this, and when its on other planets and space
Science fiction:I love when it involves space and planets because I love astronomy.Most of scifi has a thrilling plot and someone's vision of the future.
What does the future hold will the earth be desolate or overcrowded
How will they live will animal's be hunted to extinction
Im working on a few sc fi books but if anyone wants to join forces and write somthing between us im up for that
I like what your coming up with here, you could turn those into great books. I'll be happy to read them as well.
Science Fiction-You have the opportunity to comment on the world; someone can read your story and think: "wow, this could really happen?!"
Electronic telepathy, a program on a computer that remote views a target. Except it's based on actual remote viewing in military style remote viewing. For example. Like in Magnet Girl Wireless, it's essentially a biohacker that repurposes remote viewing for use in secret surveillance operations against her government. She uses magnets to disrupt electronics.
Then set it in a futuristic setting, and make the MC a rookie computer hacker in a setting similar to William Gibson's The Sprawl.
It has a lot of elements of Magic Realism and Cyberpunk, but is really kind of its own thing.
i like sci-fi to because you can make up your own explanation for how things work in the story... kinda like changing the laws of physics
Fantasy is cool because you can create new rules, and like above, speak on important issues with a different perspective.