How is science fiction different from fantasy, according to Le Guinn?
Science fiction is a story that didn't happen but the writer pretend it will happen or already happened. It tells a story that is possible to happen. It usually avoids events that will make readers doubt about the story or explains those events with a plausible reason. Science fiction is all about imagination, the writer came up with an idea of what the future would be and write a story on it. The idea must be plausible in order to get the readers’ interests. Everything in a science fiction will be explained with a plausible scientific reason.
Fantasy usually does not pretend the story would happen in the future or already happened. The readers might not believe the story would be possible to happen. In a fantasy story, everything would be different to our real world. The characters may not be human or relate to nonhuman beings in unexpected ways.
Some people think science fiction would give some ideas for our current technologies. Many people felt fantasy is a waste of time as nothing would happen in our world but some people think fantasy is an exercise of what may be our most divine and certainly is our most human capacity, the imagination.
Reference:
Attebery, B. (1980). The fantasy tradition in American literature: from Irving to Le Guin (pp.1-10). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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