Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
0026: Mathematics of Magic, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's The Mathematics of Magic has adventurer Harold Shea discovering a way to travel to the realms of fantasy using math. Following that, we argue about the difference between fantasy and science fiction.
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I guess I’m asking: for it to be science fiction, does it need to involve some kind of technology? Or science? Is it okay to be based on bad science? (at the risk of riling up Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Of course you can just duck the issue and call it horror, but that’s copping out. It’s all Speculative Fiction, anyway. Who came up with that term? Harlan Ellison?
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
If you look at Richard Matheson’s classic story ”Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, would it be Urban Fantasy (as opposed to Rural Fantasy a la Manly Wade Wellman)? Now change the gremlin to a UFO and aliens who use their technology to block sight of themselves to everyone but William Shatner (or John Lithgow), just towith him, apparently. Now is it science fiction?
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
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