Chapter 12 Fantasy/Science Fiction

Fantasy Fiction is a genre that includes stories that violate the laws of physical reality. All of Science Fiction Falls into the Fantasy Genre but not all fantasy is science fiction.

Science Fiction is a sub genre and include two different categories:
         Soft Science Fiction
         Hard Science Fiction – More science than story

You can find the same themes, subjects, problems, issues, and conflicts can be found in science fiction as the same as other genres.

Sci Fi on the Fly: A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction for Young Adults is a great resource to help with science fiction readers advisory. This book can be used to help guide students in the right directions when selecting science fiction literature.
  • Apocalyptic- End of Civilization, Natural disaster or nuclear war- We get to see what is happening during the disaster. Books include: “Tumble and Fall” and “The fifth wave” (both apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic)
  • Post-Apocalyptic - After the disaster, usually many years after the disaster. Many of the characters do not know what civilization was like before. Books include: “a Matter of Days” and “Life as we Knew it”
  •  Biopunk- Focus on biotechnology. “BZRK” is an example of biopunk.
  •  Dystopia- Propaganda is used to control citizen, citizens fear of outside world, information and individual being restricted, warship of one-person individuality is prohibited, and society is an illusion to a perfect world. Often fighting back against the government and Post-Apocalyptic is found in dystopia.  Books include “The white Mountains and “Hunger Games”.
  •  Extra Sensory Perception- deals with telepathy, precognition of future, clairvoyance.
  •  Robots, Cyborgs, Androids, AI- Many things can fit in this category. Books include “Eve and Adam” and “Beta”.
  • Time Travel and Parallel Universe- Circular problems.
  • Virtual reality/Gaming- Books include “The Eye of Minds” and “Doomed”.
  • Miscellaneous – these novels do not necessarily fall into the other criteria
Evaluation Criteria include for Science fiction and Fantasy include:
1.     Characters must behave in believable ways.
2.     The fantasy world must have rules.
3.     The authors must assist readers in the “willing suspension of disbelief.”
4.     In the themes universal truths should be explored.

Reflection
As librarians, we must remember the extent of subjects that fall under the fantasy genre. I learned just how far that goes because of science fiction, which cover more subcategories than I first realized. It was very interesting to find out these categories that fall into Science fiction. I believe being knowledgeable about these categories will help me share books with students when they are looking for some of these types of topics and recommend others that relate to the topic. I know that recently many students have really taken an interest to zombies and I didn’t realize that many books will be either Apocalyptic or sub apocalyptic categories. I believe knowing this information the difference between the two will help me when students ask me about zombie books or world disaster books. I believe that in order to recommend books that truly fit the readers needs it will be important to have a discussion with the readers and then many suggestion or recommendation. Being able to get a full picture of what they are looking for will aid in finding that book they are looking for whether it be dystopia, time travel or ESP. 

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