Comments on: Definitions http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/08/21/definitions/ RPGs. Trains, and bands that write 12 minute songs about Hobbits Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/08/21/definitions/#comment-539 Tim Hall Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:55:17 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/08/21/definitions/#comment-539 Thanks for dropping by! I posted this around the same time as there was a very long discussion on Pyramid Online about the difference between Space Opera and Hard SF, which got quite heated, and I started thinking about angels and pinheads. I've always found the works I've really enjoyed tend to blue genre and subgenre boundaries anyway. It does annoy me, though, when some mainstream (mundane?) lit-crit types use the terms Science Fiction and Fantasy interchangably, and use them to mean "Anything far fetched and implausible". Thanks for dropping by!

I posted this around the same time as there was a very long discussion on Pyramid Online about the difference between Space Opera and Hard SF, which got quite heated, and I started thinking about angels and pinheads. I’ve always found the works I’ve really enjoyed tend to blue genre and subgenre boundaries anyway.

It does annoy me, though, when some mainstream (mundane?) lit-crit types use the terms Science Fiction and Fantasy interchangably, and use them to mean “Anything far fetched and implausible”.

]]> By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/08/21/definitions/#comment-538 Teresa Nielsen Hayden Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:27:52 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/08/21/definitions/#comment-538 Does it matter? If you mean defining fantasy, no, it really doesn't. Critics have been finding that it's much more productive to describe it, sort out its subcategories, and consider how it does what it does. Does it matter? If you mean defining fantasy, no, it really doesn’t. Critics have been finding that it’s much more productive to describe it, sort out its subcategories, and consider how it does what it does.

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