Comments on: Five functions of fantasy http://www.benhoare.net/five-functions-of-fantasy/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:22:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta1 By: obandsoller http://www.benhoare.net/five-functions-of-fantasy/#comment-3 obandsoller Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:27:37 +0000 http://www.benhoare.net/?p=67#comment-3 Regarding your question about what is and isn't fantasy: Neil Gaiman said the following in a speech he gave at the Nebula Awards. <i>I always liked the idea that SF stood for Speculative Fiction, mostly because it seemed to cover everything, and include the attitude that what we were doing involved speculation. SF was about thinking, about inquiring, about making things up.</i> You can read a version of the speech <a href="http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2005/04/speech-i-just-gave-at-nebulas.asp" rel="nofollow">here</a> or <a href="http://www.strippedbooks.com/comics/stripped05/gaiman1.html" rel="nofollow">here as a comic book</a>. Regarding your question about what is and isn’t fantasy: Neil Gaiman said the following in a speech he gave at the Nebula Awards.

I always liked the idea that SF stood for Speculative Fiction, mostly because it seemed to cover everything, and include the attitude that what we were doing involved speculation. SF was about thinking, about inquiring, about making things up.

You can read a version of the speech here or here as a comic book.

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