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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Possibly you're right, but I personally love fantasy just as much as science-based SF and don't think one is more worthwile than another. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
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I don't think fantasy is any less valid a genre either. I've read the Narnia books, Harry Potter, LOTR and others. Sometimes genre's do blend to well together though. And the author of the article misses something. Science Fiction often leads to Science Fact. Robert Goddard for example read War of the Worlds as a kid. Later he pioneered liquid rocket technology which was then picked up by men like Werner Von Braun and which led to us going to the moon. For that matter stories like A logic named Joe predated the creation of the internet. First people dream on paper and then others start to wonder if there might just be a way to do what the author envisioned. And Science Fiction contributes to that more than any other genre.