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Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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i.e do you prefer:

technically grounded and plausible science elements (e.g The Martian)

stuff so fantastical that it doesn't even warrant trying to explain it (Dr Who, some Marvel/DC stuff, Star Wars)

Another way to look at this would be Sci-Fi versus Science Fantasy, perhaps.

Old-School Sci-Fi like HG Wells centers around a core scientific idea and the consequences arising from that,

whereas

Science Fantasy (more prevalent nowadays) only looks to science - or the impression of some science - to serve the fantasy devices it uses.

So which is better?

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

If it is too technically grounded and plausible where the more fiction part is that they got their shit together and actually did it, like The Martian I see it more akin to the adventures genre.

Also the opposite, with Star Wars or Dune more closely related to fantasy, but in space.

I like science fiction that requires technologies that don't exist that make the story possible, I don't care if it not based in reality and it is not well explained how it supposed to work, I care more about what it does and how it shapes the lives of those around it.