I’m not sure when it was written, but I ran across this list of the best science fiction and fantasy books this century, and I resonated with the ones I’ve read, so I thought I’d see what others thought of it. Have you read many of them?

  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Same. I love sci-fi but really can’t get into fantasy. They aren’t the same and it bugs me that they’re always lumped together.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      It really is hard to draw a crisp line between them though. Sure, there are hard SF books (Ringworld, Red Mars) that are clearly SF, and there are fantasy books (Hobbit, Narnia) that are firmly fantasy, but they’re like ends of a spectrum. Where would you put Dune? How about Hyperion? There’s just too much that’s in the middle of the spectrum.