Sharon Writes

“Science fiction is about what could happen but isn’t, fantasy is about what couldn’t be”. This quote of Arthur C Clarke explains the basic point of difference between the two genres, fantasy and science fiction. Besides the elementary difference that you might pick up from a google search, it is imperative to understand how the story is structured and written in fantasy vs in science fiction. The possibility and the impossibility creates a difference between them. They are extremely similar in capacities but highly different by the possibilities of it happening. The goal is one of the differences between ‘what if‘, which describes fantasy and divides our world against a world that could be. For instance, The Lord of the Rings, a world full of elves and trolls and hobbits is known as the middle earth. The races are far superior to humans but successfully engaged their readers in the story. The characters also differ when it comes to these two. Sci-fi deals with characters that ar...

Speculative fiction is a genre that promises anything and everything beyond the real world. As much as we hate the fact that Sherlock is a fictional character and Hogwarts is not real, speculative fiction is so much more than a genre. The ability to create worlds different from the world we live in is an art in itself. We used to create and believe in things that did not exist at children, unicorns, dragons, colorful pandas, talking dogs, you name it, and someone somewhere has already tried that out. We see and experience things out of reality almost every day, maybe we see it in our dreams or imagine it while we daydream, but it's quite common. As we see and experience these things, and often forget them. A stray light blinking questionably might seem scary at some point, but you’ll forget about it soon enough, but what lives on, is speculative fiction through literature and cinema. You might think you have special powers if you do a calculation faster than normal, or predict co...