Re: Science Fantasy, the richest of all fiction genres
Posted by:
Knygatin (IP Logged)
Date: 21 August, 2020 03:27PM
Hespire Wrote:
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> The best science fantasy, for me, are stories that
> don't try so hard to represent any genre, but
> rather use the tropes of science and sorcery
> seamlessly, so that neither genre sorely sticks
> out, creating a natural world ...
>
> ... doesn't feel like a clutter of
> cliches, but a uniquely strange illustration of a
> wonderland, feeling at once like an old manuscript
> and a vision of an alien world. ...
>
> ... I would enjoy more science
> fantasy along these lines, and not so much
> pointy-hatted wizards flinging fireballs at
> cyborgs with laser guns.
>
This so interesting. It concerns quality in art and literature. Which can be very evasive.
Are we really truly engaged by authors (painters and moviemakers) who show off their brilliant intelligence, convoluted plots and bombastic fireworks? No! WHO CARES about that?! IQ level is overrated, just like comparing biggest size, strongest super strength, and fastest speed, or the longest line of algebra. The rabble may be impressed by that, but not sensitive individuals. What we want is genuine art. Writers who use their intelligence and insights sensitively, to blend different parts and elements into something naturally organic, that transcends the sum of its parts. The smart-ass intelligence of the ego is no longer tied up in clichés lined up on display, for it's separate effort observations have transmuted into a living creation.
The best Science Fantasy reminds me of old vintage wine, its cultivated parts and wafts of varied elements blown in by wind and sun and rain, the most subtle ingredients selected by divine mystical intervention (something inspired artists can tap into), having matured into something great, of genuine quality and age. Speaking to the soul and heart, intellect being secondary.