http://blog.ewanscorner.com/2007/07/a-long-shear-of-light-and-then-a-series-of-low-concussions/ Sporadically blogging since 2003 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.ewanscorner.com/2007/07/a-long-shear-of-light-and-then-a-series-of-low-concussions/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Joe Sherry Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:36:31 +0000 http://blog.ewanscorner.com/?p=352#comment-148 I think "science fiction" these days is a bit of a misnomer. Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy has spaceships and some aliens, but light on the science side and has souls coming back from the dead. Categorized more as space opera, if I was being strict, I'd call it a fantasy rather than SF. The Road, though, is clearly Science Fiction, or rather Speculative Fiction. It is a fictional look at a possible future. SF. Ray Bradbury once said that the only work of science fiction he wrote was Fahrenheit 451 because the events in that novel could actually happen. Everything else, including The Martian Chronicles, was fantasy. Aliens and science are not requirements for "science" fiction. The genre, such as it is, is much wider than that. Any piece of post apocalyptic fiction is, by its nature, SF. I think “science fiction” these days is a bit of a misnomer. Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy has spaceships and some aliens, but light on the science side and has souls coming back from the dead. Categorized more as space opera, if I was being strict, I’d call it a fantasy rather than SF.
The Road, though, is clearly Science Fiction, or rather Speculative Fiction. It is a fictional look at a possible future. SF.
Ray Bradbury once said that the only work of science fiction he wrote was Fahrenheit 451 because the events in that novel could actually happen. Everything else, including The Martian Chronicles, was fantasy. Aliens and science are not requirements for “science” fiction. The genre, such as it is, is much wider than that.
Any piece of post apocalyptic fiction is, by its nature, SF.

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