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Permalink Reply by Amanda Horetski on December 9, 2011 at 9:43am

Hi everyone! I enjoy reading both sci-fi and fantasy, but as a writer, I'm firmly in the fantasy genre. I'm not sure I'm scienctificly minded enough to write sci-fi. Fantasy is easier because I can make things up as I go *L*

Permalink Reply by Warren C. Bennett on December 9, 2011 at 4:28pm

I don't think you have to be scientifically minded to write SciFI. I am hardly a scientist and I love writing Science Fiction.  Hard SciFi is the type that uses pure science (as we know it at the moment) as the base for everything in the story, but that isn't necessarily how all science fiction is created.  Take CS Lewis' SciFI Trilogy for example - he didn't really explain much in a scientific sense.  Science can be just "Futuristic" as well.

Permalink Reply by Amanda Horetski on December 9, 2011 at 4:45pm

I just know I have a harder time making up sci-fi stories, my mind just doesn't work that way. I'm much better with fantasy. 

Permalink Reply by Warren C. Bennett on December 9, 2011 at 4:49pm

I tend to go between scifi and fantasy pretty easily.  But I am not a technical Science writer either. In SciFI I know there has to be some kind of science behind the 'things' going on, but I don't really present it.  I tend to write it like people live now: Most people that use the internet don't know the science behind the data speeding back and forth.  Things just are and are used.  But I also do that with fantasy as well: Magic and such are just there. However it is easier to figure out why things work in Fantasy sometimes, because I can just make stuff up.  

Permalink Reply by Amanda Horetski on December 9, 2011 at 4:55pm

I think that for me, sci-fi would require a lot more research than my fantasy stuff. Plus in all the 20+ years I've been writing, I've written one sci-fi story. It was my first story and it was an obvious rip-off of Star Wars. 

All my ideas fall in the range of fantasy, so that's what I write.

Permalink Reply by Warren C. Bennett on December 9, 2011 at 5:01pm

I'd argue that Star Wars is more futuristic Fantasy than Scifi, but I know those that would disagree.  I've written a variety of stories, though Right now I'm working on a hard boiled detective novel set on a generation ship. I have no idea how things work all the time, but I think the idea is great, heh. (If I do say so myself XD)

Permalink Reply by Amanda Horetski on December 9, 2011 at 5:23pm

My novel that I'm going to start editing as soon as my final exams are done is a post-apocalyptic novel with magic and a hint of steampunk (through just the steam part, no victorian age people). 

Permalink Reply by Warren C. Bennett on December 9, 2011 at 5:26pm

Well steampunk can be separated from the Victorian roots, I believe.  To me it is just a cool idea for a setting, I don't think there are rules that have to be followed or else the steampunk police will come after you XD.  I love the idea of steampunk but I also like taking it out of the victorian trappings.  

Permalink Reply by Amanda Horetski on December 9, 2011 at 5:55pm

I actually gave them a whole new name - the basis of my story is that all the technology in the world suddenly won't work anymore. The steampunk element is a group of people who use steam to try and get some of the old technologies to work. They have mixed results.

Permalink Reply by Warren C. Bennett on December 9, 2011 at 9:37pm

What is the name of your steam punks?

Permalink Reply by Amanda Horetski on December 9, 2011 at 9:39pm

They are called Mechareaves

Permalink Reply by Warren C. Bennett on December 9, 2011 at 9:43pm

cool name.  I like it :)

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