Is SF fantasy?
It’s a good article, well worth a look. I tend to think of SF as more of its own genre, with its own subgenres (space opera, cyberpunk, etc.), but I also think it’s important writers remember that science fiction should still be fiction as well. Many writers seem to think that a different set of rules apply because they’re writing SF; they take a slower approach to their work, and as long as they bring everything together at the end, the reader will follow them through it. I don’t believe that. I think every form of fiction should follow the same standards - have interesting characters, a sense of direction. I won’t waste my time with a book that doesn’t engage me all the way through and I find a lot of science fiction is like that these days, unfortunately.
You can find the article here. Let me know what you think.
