Let me clear this up for you
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I don't think sci-fi and fantasy are that clear-cut. A lot of fantasy is quite hopeful (the bad guys pretty much always lose at the end of the story), and it's kind of 50:50 whether it depicts the past as better or worse than it was. e.g. the shire in Lord of the Rings is practically a utopia, despite not being completely unrealistic for a pre-industrial society (it probably looks a lot more utopian than it is because most of the hobbit characters we know are aristocrats).
Literature is, generally, definitely not about happy feelings, though.
This is Farmer Maggot erasure and I won't have it
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For Conservatives these days ....
Sci-fi is their fantasy
Fantasy is their reality
and literature about dystopian futures is their guide
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That's my secret, Cap. I'm depressed about the past, present, and future at the same time.
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For me, Sci-Fi is about the hope of a better future. In those stories, people explore beyond our petty problems of the past.
'O brave new world, that has such people in 't!'
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For me, Sci-Fi is about the hope of a better future. In those stories, people explore beyond our petty problems of the past.
Not much of that utopian sci fi around though.
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Not much of that utopian sci fi around though.
There's some hopeful sci-fi on it's way soon with Starfleet Academy.
Mostly looking forward to the return of The Doc.
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Sci-fi with depression replaced by hopefulness = Star Trek.
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Sci-fi with depression replaced by hopefulness = Star Trek.
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You, Picard Maneuver and Stamets are the coolest already just counting the amount of Star Trek content y'all make/share.
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Sci-fi with depression replaced by hopefulness = Star Trek.
Literature with depression replaced by hopefulness = solarpunk?
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You, Picard Maneuver and Stamets are the coolest already just counting the amount of Star Trek content y'all make/share.
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Apocalypse is when you happy about the future.
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Scifi is when you're a fucking nerd who likes technology. Fantasy is when you're a fucking nerd who likes history. Literature is when you're a fucking nerd.
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Flaw number one: sci fi can be a lot, tonally. It can be depressing, but also hopeful, horrifying, epic etc.
Flaw number two: fantasy can be a lot, tonally. It can be depressing, but also hopeful, horrifying, epic etc.
Flaw number three: "literature" is not a setting. There's fantasy and sci fi literature as well as real-world-related or apocalyptic literature. "Literature" is just written down stories. -
For me, Sci-Fi is about the hope of a better future. In those stories, people explore beyond our petty problems of the past.
Yeah I guess there's two different categories of sci-fi in this regard. Personally, I think stuff that's as far ahead in the future as Star Trek is pretty close to fantasy. But then there's also the Philip K. Dick style near future dystopian sci-fi that serves more as a warning about the future we're headed to (or instruction manual if you're a techbro CEO).
Fantasy is probably the same actually. I usually think happy thoughts if I think about fantasy as a genre but then there's also stuff like Game of Thrones.
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Scifi is when you're a fucking nerd who likes technology. Fantasy is when you're a fucking nerd who likes history. Literature is when you're a fucking nerd.
Since when are sci-fi and fantasy nerds fucking?
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I prefer high fantasy over grim dark fantasy.
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This is just wanting a pretext to be depressed.
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why not all three
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If every genre you read is depressing, you're the common factor.
