Hmm, I Wonder, Am I Really Right About Space Opera?

On 6 August I hosted a guest post by Rowena Cory Daniells titled “Fantasy: The Poor Cousin of Science Fiction” — and as sometimes happens with feature posts the comments took on a life of their own.

The general trend of the comments was that it was actually the other way around, that science fiction, with the possible exception of near-future dystopia, has become the poor relation of fantasy in all its various expressions—the big fantasy epics, steampunk, and vampire fiction—on the shelf. (Row...