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The problem, Zyflair, is that this is a Pokemon forum. Everyone on a forums generally likes Pokemon, which is very fantasy/sci-fi orientated, and so people liking Pokemon generally enjoy sci-fi/fantasy. So, the stories you get are mostly about Pokemon, and those that aren't are mostly fantasy/sci-fi in general.
 
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I am writing a realistic Fiction, just not posting it... I don't wanna take the time to re-space that, and edit it...
Too much time.
 
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^ According to about a dozen bookstores I've visited, fantasy falls under sci-fi.
 
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Zyflair said:
^ According to about a dozen bookstores I've visited, fantasy falls under sci-fi.
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...what. lol. My dad is so convinced that fantasy is stupid. Because "science fiction has a chance of being real someday." Meh. I don't mind sci-fi I just prefer fantasy vastly over it.
 
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I kid you not. One of my most favorite series regarding pretty intelligent dragons falls under sci-fi (you iz a master, E. E. Knight). Pretty much anything involving lores, myths, legends, futuristic, and all that stuff is under that strange place called sci-fi.

Basically, it's just fiction that isn't realistic (as of now).
 
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Zyflair said:
I kid you not. One of my most favorite series regarding pretty intelligent dragons falls under sci-fi (you iz a master, E. E. Knight). Pretty much anything involving lores, myths, legends, futuristic, and all that stuff is under that strange place called sci-fi.

Basically, it's just fiction that isn't realistic (as of now).
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...what. That just...what. Ugh. I don't agree with that lol
 
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I agree. It's a ridiculous system that makes finding preferred topics an utter pain, lol.
 
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...what. That just...what. Ugh. I don't agree with that lol
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There's no science involved in magic, as much as people may want to believe in that sort of thing.
 
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Well, maybe if a bunch of nukes go off all the radiation will turn all the animals into dragons and destroy technology, turning us back to the medieval age...or something, and that's why fantasy falls under sci-fi. Yeah....
 
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^I think Fantasy is better than Sci-Fi, but that's just books, I don't like Fantasy movies, aren't the coolest thing, especially compared to Sci-Fi... But that's just me.
 
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I know at libraries they tend to group science fiction and fantasy close together...but most have the decency to only keep them close, not say that they're the same genre.
 
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I've yet to see a bookstore explicitly label a shelf of books as "Fantasy," but there might be one out there.
 
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Come to think of it I haven't either. Then again I'm used to being in the YA or Kids sections of book stores...
 
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Grow up. You oughta try looking around sometimes.
 
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It's been ages since I've been in a bookstore. Regardless, I have been looking more in more into fiction for more "mature" people, although some of my favorite authors write YA Novels.
 
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Out of curiousity, is there anyone besides aggie that writes simply fiction rather than science fiction?
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Given the next 20 posts that follow, and the decidedly mixed responses, combined with a very vague term involved, before I answer, I must first ask you a question:

What would you consider to be "Science fiction"?
 
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Zyflair said:
Basically, it's just fiction that isn't realistic (as of now).
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The Fallen One said:
It's been ages since I've been in a bookstore. Regardless, I have been looking more in more into fiction for more "mature" people, although some of my favorite authors write YA Novels.
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My favorite YA/Children author was Kathryn Lasky. Almost no close second.
 
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Kenneth Oppel, Tolkien, Orson Scott Card, James Clemens, and Garth Nix are my favorite authors. Note that only one of them is primarily a science fiction writer.

Science fiction to me is well...just that. It's based off of science, technology. It often involves space travel, advanced technology, aliens, and/or time travel. Granted time travel is also something that can be placed under fantasy, science fiction has a base in reality. It is possible that science fiction can come true someday. Fantasy often deals with things that can't exist, like magic and the physical presence of gods.
 
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Dude, all those I don't even recognize...

James patterson all the way...
 
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