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SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Enders Game instilled the importance of adjusting your frame of reference.
So it’s science fiction but when you consider a collaborative global human response to existential danger it’s fantasy.
But the Shadow series shows how quickly we go back to weaponizing and using gifted war trained children as tools of conquest… so realism/horror?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Orson Scott Card actually weighed in on a simple way to determine if something is fantasy or sci-fi since he writes both: