r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Alextral • 1d ago

I really hate this

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Fantasy and science fiction being cramped in the same section, which is already so small :(

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u/arochains1231 PURPLE 1d ago

As sci-fi lover and fantasy hater I also dislike this. Why would they lump in Ray Bradbury and Arthur Clarke in the same category as magical witches and dwarves? It makes zero sense.

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u/earth_west_420 1d ago

Bradbury and Tolkien really weren't that far apart from each other content-wise. Bradbury would always take some weird or negative human trait and speculate on its evolution 100 or 1000 years down the road. Tolkien took 2000 pages to speculate on the nature of war between different kinds of humanoids. Speculate, speculate... Huh. Is there a kind of fiction that specializes in speculation?