Are you a Fantasy-fag or a Sci-Fi-fag?

[octavius]

Fantasy fag. Except for some of older books like Dune and Hitchhiker I never really got any chance to read any good scifi books, thus my lower interest on it.
A bit out of topic but if I want to get to scifi what should I read?

Original Foundation (not the later novels), and I, Robot by Asimov.
Most novels by Philip K. Dick
Starship Troopers and Door Into Summer by Heinlein
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Ringworld by Larry Niven
That's a good start.

 

[octavius]

With the scientific illiteracy of most authors, what's the difference?

Many of the old writers of "hard" SF actually were scientists.
Don't know about the current crop, though.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I really enjoy both, but have to say tha Sci Fi has greater stories overall.

Edit: I mean greater variety of stories.

 

[Louis_Cypher]

I'm with the sci-fi.

But fantasy can be pretty great, Tolkien is my favorite author.

I would like to see fantasy like Heretic & Hexen type stuff with dimensions, ethereal crossbows and hell worlds, not more poor imitations of high fantasy.

 

[JarlFrank]

I'm on the camp of both, but have a special fondness for oldschool sword and sorcery, and imaginative fantasy that strays from the common elves & dwarves & prophecies tropes.

It's called fiction. Don't just repeat what everyone else has already done. I don't need yet another "group of heroes saves world from ancient evil because prophecy says so" novel, but I also don't need yet another Star Trek clone.

Be creative.

 

[laclongquan]

Bitch please~ New readers crave for originality.

Old readers know there's no such thing as originality. We just want well-done writings, that is good enough.

EDIT: and okay, some interesting characters as well. They are actually harder than they sounds.

 

[Bigg Boss]

There should always be a third option. What if you want your games to look like this?

 

[Blink]

sci-fi is just futuristic fantasy.

 

[Norfleet]

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I liked Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus much more than his Book of the New Sun novels. There, I said it.

 

[Darkwind]

I'm with the sci-fi.

But fantasy can be pretty great, Tolkien is my favorite author.

I would like to see fantasy like Heretic & Hexen type stuff with dimensions, ethereal crossbows and hell worlds, not more poor imitations of high fantasy.

 

[DalekFlay]

I'm a sci-fi slut, whore, fag and cuck. I bathe in sci-fi jizz and cuddle a sci-fi fuck pillow at night. If sci-fi fucked me in the ass I would reach underneath and caress its hairy balls.

Fantasy is cool too though.

 

[DraQ]

Sci-Fi. I mean I don't object to good fantasy, the problem is that fantasy is almost universally the domain of low-effort writers as standardized cliches reign supreme and it's genuinely harder to write anything meaningfully interesting in fantasy due to looseness of its constraints.

Of course by Sci-Fi I mean proper Sci-Fi, not all the homeopathically diluted SWs and STs.

I'm a sci-fi slut, whore, fag and cuck. I bathe in sci-fi jizz and cuddle a sci-fi fuck pillow at night. If sci-fi fucked me in the ass I would reach underneath and caress its hairy balls.

Fantasy is cool too though.

Sci-Fi's balls are so massive they have formed event horizons - refer to no-hair theorem.

 

[Van-d-all]

I barely tolerate fantasy, purely because there's not enough good SciFi games. It's not like I don't find magic or dragons and shit appealing, but majority of fantasy worlds are just plain pants-on-head stupid and lack basic logic, let alone consistency. Of course there are exceptions, like the setting from Witcher (shamelessly ripped off in Dragon Age...), but generally I find fantasy world's serviceable, whereas SciFi I simply enjoy.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Fantasy

Preferably low fantasy

 

[DalekFlay]

Sci-Fi's balls are so massive they have formed event horizons - refer to no-hair theorem.

Thorough research of online documentary footage has shown me that body hair is back, so I've gotta be willing to dive in.

 

[Endemic]

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

 

[Silverfish]

Fantasy-fag. Most sci-fi is either too dry or too depressing for my tastes.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Fantasy

Preferably low fantasy

About low enough to reach the height of a spider, I presume?

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Fantasy

Preferably low fantasy

About low enough to reach the height of a spider, I presume?

You calling me a SPIDERLING?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Fantasy

Preferably low fantasy

About low enough to reach the height of a spider, I presume?

You calling me a SPIDERLING?

Nah, I'm calling you short.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Fantasy

Preferably low fantasy

About low enough to reach the height of a spider, I presume?

You calling me a SPIDERLING?

Nah, I'm calling you short.

Watch your back around these parts, Eryfkrad. That's not a threat or anything. I'm just saying... you might want to make sure you turn your head a little more often on the streets.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Fantasy

Preferably low fantasy

About low enough to reach the height of a spider, I presume?

You calling me a SPIDERLING?

Nah, I'm calling you short.

Watch your back around these parts, Eryfkrad. That's not a threat or anything. I'm just saying... you might want to make sure you turn your head a little more often on the streets.

And you keep an eye above you. Not a threat or anything, you never know when someone will step on you accidentally.

 

[Citizen]

And you keep an eye above you. Not a threat or anything, you never know when someone will step on you accidentally.

That's low

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And you keep an eye above you. Not a threat or anything, you never know when someone will step on you accidentally.

That's low

So is he!