week4 - dis/similarity fantasy and science fiction

How is science fiction different from fantasy

 According to Ursula K. Le Guin, although science fiction(s.f) differs to fantasy there are similarities. Most science fictions have different time frame with the present. It often pretends that the future is the present or the past, and then tells us what happened in it. S.f is the outcome of imagination. In other words writers can write anything contrast to the present trends. In many fantasy stories, there are non-human characters which behave unexpected ways. Another similarity is that people, who have not read s.f or fantasy, consider the stories are useless and irrational ideas. However, people read them with desire to be extraordinary, they want to be more than just human. Fantasy is the suspension of disbelief. When I was 5-ish years old kids, I always wanted to be invisible so I can enter amusement parks for free. Maybe the reason I wanted to be invisible was because of boring life, same life-style doing the same thing all the time like hamsters in cage. We all know that cannot become true. Back to the difference, in s.f there is rarely a hero but men in arm with modern technology, such as machine guns, rockets and so on but no magic. But in fantasy there most likely is a hero who has magnificent power, save people, help weakers doing all the heroic things by using magics and special forces. Why do we watch heroic films? ‘Desire’.