Usually something like a hybrid of Mundane Sf and Dark Urban Fantasy, how do you account for trying to make it real enough to not weird out an SF person. Yet still use some of the tropes that the fantasy genre is more known for?
I kind of sort of developed a magic system, I've been using fairly consistently with the last four or so short stories. Something sort of like where its not usable or harness-able. But is felt through supernatural events that happen. Not like a ghost (or how it's originally thought of) but my disrupted technology.
I use to just throw whatever out there and just see if it sticks. Quests revolving around rescuing a princess, check. Zombies that develop from nuclear weapons, check. Science experiments that change the psychology of human specimens, check. Often in the same story. I'm not sure if I can go back to where I was. The Sf feels less like Sf these days, and the Fantasy feels less like fantasy. Sort of those under the surface magical details.
I rambled a bit, are there any books that have those quieter fantasy details? As far as SF the only Quiet Sf I know of is the book Pattern Recognition, if that's even considered SF.
I kind of sort of developed a magic system, I've been using fairly consistently with the last four or so short stories. Something sort of like where its not usable or harness-able. But is felt through supernatural events that happen. Not like a ghost (or how it's originally thought of) but my disrupted technology.
I use to just throw whatever out there and just see if it sticks. Quests revolving around rescuing a princess, check. Zombies that develop from nuclear weapons, check. Science experiments that change the psychology of human specimens, check. Often in the same story. I'm not sure if I can go back to where I was. The Sf feels less like Sf these days, and the Fantasy feels less like fantasy. Sort of those under the surface magical details.
I rambled a bit, are there any books that have those quieter fantasy details? As far as SF the only Quiet Sf I know of is the book Pattern Recognition, if that's even considered SF.
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