Online čitanka četvrtkom: O FANTASYJU I SPACE OPERI

King Rat: I hate fantasy!

In general, I really don’t like the fantasy genre. I also really want to like it. I want to be whisked away to fantastical worlds of magic and strange creatures. But like Hollywood movies which make only the slightest attempts at plot coherency which make it difficult for me to suspend disbelief, fantasy is full of clichéd, trite, and poorly written crap. More so than most genres, I cringe every time I start another fantasy novel. Here’s why …

Tyler Feltmate: Mature Themes in Fantasy – How Adult Topics Give Rise to New Fields in the Fantasy Genre

A discussion of how contemporary writers’ use of mature themes like politics, sex, military strategy and crime has helped evolve and foster new sub-genres in Fantasy …

JP: My Favorite Type Of Science Fiction – Space Opera

I like Space Opera for its large sense of scale, larger then life heroics and unstoppable threats. Add in some cool science fiction gadgets and technology, and you ‘widescreen’ science fiction filled with action and adventure. For me, the modern day take on Space Opera is some of the best science fiction out there …

Alan DeNiro: Space Opera

So, right, spaceships.
I like writing about spaceships. Not every science fiction story involving spaceships is space opera, of course–which, in my idiosyncratic definition, is often playful with language, frenetic, fecundly huge in galactic scope–but let’s just say that my grips on the nuts and bolts of Actual Science are, um, tenuous …

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