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)
The Shadow of the Torturer
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
Saga, Volume 1
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Opening Moves by Cosimo YapNascent by Tony CordenEdge of Reality by Andrei LivadnyEarth Force by Shemer KuznitsCountdown by Michael Atamanov
LitRPG... in space!
23 books — 26 voters
Alien Species Intervention by J.K. AccinniEvil Among Us by J.K. AccinniEcho by J.K. AccinniHive by J.K. AccinniArmageddon Cometh by J.K. Accinni
Science Fiction
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La terra morente by Jack VanceZothique by Clark Ashton SmithL'ombra del torturatore by Gene WolfeThe Night Land by William Hope HodgsonLa saga di Cugel by Jack Vance
All Dying Earth Books
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The Bush Clinic by Stella AtriumExplorations by Nathan HystadDeath Becomes Her by Michael AnderleBite This by Michael AnderleQueen Bitch by Michael Anderle
A Must Read ScFi - 2017
180 books — 21 voters
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria   GoddardThe Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn WolfmoorThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Map and the Territory by A.M. TuomalaAt the Feet of the Sun by Victoria   Goddard
SFF Where Friendship > Romance
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Lindsey S. Frantz
As I thought it I willed it into existence. -Erilyn
Lindsey S. Frantz, The Upworld

Aaron Dembski-Bowden
He did not answer, nor did he watch as I left. He was seeing Sigismund again, dwelling on replies he could never speak to a brother he had once admired and who had died despising him.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Black Legion

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