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)
The Shadow of the Torturer
Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
Saga, Volume 1
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Costi Gurgu
The evening city lay decrepit and silent under an incessantly seething pink sky. A sky that hung overhead like a field of bloody cotton candy, bisected by the lightning of constantly raging storms. Every once in a while thunder rolled through the streets, shaking the buildings. This was life after the last Black Rain.
Costi Gurgu, Pink Corrosion

Joseph A. Anderson
The music stops as they walk out of the forest toward the smooth extra-terrestrial spacecraft glistening in the sun on the far side of the meadow. To Atom, the ship feels like a time machine. Steven and Sylvia watch them with deadpan stares as the three astronauts walk with the spectacle of eclectic, colorful characters on feathered horseback following. A breeze picks up and Atom glances back to see stoic faces with vibrant robes and dresses flowing in the wind.
Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

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