You earthlings and your third dimension. It's cute.

[momebie]

Over on twitter getyourguns was musing about how X-Men: First Class had been labeled as Fantasy at the Scream Awards, because she considered it to be more Science-Fiction instead. matthewbowers responded to her and said that Science-Fiction and Fantasy are rarely crossed together. He contends that each has a set of tropes and themes that you never (or hardly ever) find

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[mrsquizzical]

i haven't studied this stuff, so there may be very obvious answers to my queries as to why this is such an 'important' question. i think it's an interesting question where people draw lines, but can't really see that it must have this black&white thing. and what about stuff that likes to be cross genre? as a music fan it seems too similar to people not liking bands they can't classify easily.

my favourite author is ursula k le guin. i know that her stuff has been criticised for this before. it's sometimes called science fiction but people argue it's 'just' fantasy or somesuch. i think there's some distinction between if magic or naturalistic elements are used to explain stuff, or if it's more overtly science-y. but then some space type stuff doesn't really go into the 'how' of the science, you just expect that there is science happening to help people live in space etc.

anyway i do think it's interesting. the only reason i can think of for people to get really irate about it would be if they have a heirarchy for what is considered 'better'. which i assume would be science fiction, because of course science is better than nature or superstition. :|||