| What actually makes it....
Fantasy or SciFi?
What is it about a book that shouts at you either of these two?
If you read a book is in a certain genre what do you expect to see in it?
What is it that makes you decide whether something suits the genre or not?
I know this may bring about some long answers, and I say, BRING IT ON! I've just been interested in these questions recently when thinking about writing a short story for a competition. I came up with an idea, wrote a plot up, sat back and looked at it and went, "well, I think its SciFi, but will other people?". I'm not going into what I wrote, just wondering what other people think of the subject.
If you like, mention sub-genres. Obviously there may be a bit of difference when you see a sub-genre. I just want to know the kinds of things people expect to be reading about when they see something in the Fantasy/SciFi sections of their book stores, before they read the blurb. |