Speculative Fiction #3: Sci-Fi vs. Fantasy…

While Margaret Atwood would lump both of these genres under her catch-all category “Speculative Fiction,” they’re really very different, even though a bookstore might ignorantly shelve them in the same section. Sci-fi peers into the realm of the possible and is often an extrapolation of current science and technology; fantasy peers into the realm of magic and the impossible and generally ignores all science and technology. Many scientists read sci-fi but eschew fantasy; many authors who are ex-s...