Comments on: Review of the Day: Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/04/14/review-of-the-day-eye-of-the-storm-by-kate-messner/ A School Library Journal Blog Sat, 18 May 2013 16:25:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: RA Jones http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/04/14/review-of-the-day-eye-of-the-storm-by-kate-messner/#comment-738359 RA Jones Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:37:37 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=12118#comment-738359 "Seems to me that sometimes we should separate our fiction into science fiction and science-science fiction." Interesting concept. Bit like trying to subdivide fantasy into high and low fantasy. Children tend towards low because that's what's written for them. Wiki defines low fantasy as, "nonrational happenings that are without causality or rationality because they occur in the rational world where such things are not supposed to occur." And then there's science fantasy--science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable. For many users of the term, however, "science fantasy" is either a science fiction story that has drifted far enough from reality to "feel" like a fantasy, or a fantasy story that is attempting to be science fiction. But really it's just a matter of convention. So for your science science fiction, we need to apply a kind of plausibility rule maybe. Hey, I'm from the Uk where the weather changes every three hours so I know anything is possible. Suspension of belief is a no brainer for me. Over here we realised long ago that weather men make the best novelists anyway; they are quite used to making things up as they go along. Ouch. RA Jones “Seems to me that sometimes we should separate our fiction into science fiction and science-science fiction.”

Interesting concept. Bit like trying to subdivide fantasy into high and low fantasy. Children tend towards low because that’s what’s written for them.
Wiki defines low fantasy as, “nonrational happenings that are without causality or rationality because they occur in the rational world where such things are not supposed to occur.”
And then there’s science fantasy–science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable.
For many users of the term, however, “science fantasy” is either a science fiction story that has drifted far enough from reality to “feel” like a fantasy, or a fantasy story that is attempting to be science fiction. But really it’s just a matter of convention.
So for your science science fiction, we need to apply a kind of plausibility rule maybe. Hey, I’m from the Uk where the weather changes every three hours so I know anything is possible. Suspension of belief is a no brainer for me. Over here we realised long ago that weather men make the best novelists anyway; they are quite used to making things up as they go along.
Ouch.

RA Jones

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