summary to think about

[elizabear]

Lifted from a comment in another LJ.


At Boskone, one suggestion was that an SF protagonist wins conflict by being smarter, better prepared, or having better tools, while a fantasy protagonist wins by being a better person -- sometimes more magic or destiny, sometimes more morality or friends.

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[hrj.livejournal.com]

I'm contemplating the distinction that would need to be made between "having more magic" on the one side and either "being smarter" or "having better tools" (depending on worldview) on the other side. For that matter, one could view "having more friends" as a special case of "being better prepared". (I'm also contemplating how many of my fantasy stories are evidently SF by this metric.)