Science Fantasy

Science fantasy is a mixed genre within speculative fiction drawing elements from both science fiction and fantasy.

A definition, offered by Rod Serling, is that "science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible." The meaning is that science fiction describes unlikely things that could possibly take place in the real world under certain conditions, while science fantasy gives a veneer of realism to things that simply could not happen in the real world under any circumstances. Another interpretation is that science fiction does not permit the e
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Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Dune (Dune #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
The Shadow of the Torturer
Saga, Volume 1
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Cyrille  Mendes
La plaine fit place à des rocailles parsemées de frêles arbustes et de fougères rabougries. Puis défilèrent sous les sabots ferrés de noires coulées basaltiques, d’où affleuraient nombre de cristaux de roche et de sardoines. Terres entrecoupées de loin en loin par des fissures traîtresses, franchies en sautant par-dessus au triple galop ! Lieu singulier, qui voyait s’ériger de-ci de-là des monuments : temples abandonnés, à demi ensevelis et aux toits empourprés tant ceux-ci étaient drus de joub ...more
Cyrille Mendes, Les Épieurs d'Ombre

Myosotis
The city was in ruins. It had merely been months since its fall and it already looked like a century year old abandoned settlement. Steel skyscrapers and buildings once covered in suspended organic gardens and fountains were riddled with black poisonous vines. Fountains which once harboured blue waters were soiled with rotten bodies, bones and toxic moss. The streets were a cemetery of vehicles and skeletons, a graveyard of metal and bone.
Myosotis, Alchemy of Light and Shadow

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