Post by account_disabled on Dec 14, 2023 10:12:06 GMT
In both a science fiction and fantasy novel, an author must establish a level of science and technology that man has reached. I often read about science fiction stories set a few years in the future and with very advanced technology and others set in a very distant future where men still move around in wheeled cars and smoke cigarettes. Usually in a classic fantasy novel, therefore set in a hypothetical Middle Ages, the writer limits himself to swords and axes and drawn chariots. And this is a small mistake – or rather a gap – because in the Middle Ages several innovations were introduced, such as glasses, printing, firearms.
There was pasta and you ate it with a fork. In both Phone Number Data our worlds, therefore, whether they are futuristic or from an imaginary past, we must decide what progress science has made and what technologies man has at his disposal to improve his existence. These are elements that cannot be left to chance. Science and technology in fantasy I talked about the innovations of the Middle Ages. Even if most fantasy novels are set in fictional worlds, they still tend to leave intact the medieval iconography that we are now accustomed to.
Deviating from the average means creating a more original work. Terry Brooks, in one of his Shannara sagas, introduced flying ships. An example perhaps not exactly fitting, since otherwise man was in the middle of the Middle Ages. But he still introduced a technological innovation. In Zeferina , a fantasy novel set in the Kingdom of Italy, the problem does not arise, because there is a historical background and therefore science and technology are those of that historical context. We can almost establish a rule of behavior: in a fantasy the writer will establish a historical context on which he will rely for science and technology. Or he himself will create a historical context born from the union of multiple contexts.
There was pasta and you ate it with a fork. In both Phone Number Data our worlds, therefore, whether they are futuristic or from an imaginary past, we must decide what progress science has made and what technologies man has at his disposal to improve his existence. These are elements that cannot be left to chance. Science and technology in fantasy I talked about the innovations of the Middle Ages. Even if most fantasy novels are set in fictional worlds, they still tend to leave intact the medieval iconography that we are now accustomed to.
Deviating from the average means creating a more original work. Terry Brooks, in one of his Shannara sagas, introduced flying ships. An example perhaps not exactly fitting, since otherwise man was in the middle of the Middle Ages. But he still introduced a technological innovation. In Zeferina , a fantasy novel set in the Kingdom of Italy, the problem does not arise, because there is a historical background and therefore science and technology are those of that historical context. We can almost establish a rule of behavior: in a fantasy the writer will establish a historical context on which he will rely for science and technology. Or he himself will create a historical context born from the union of multiple contexts.