IROSF Article by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold on the SF/F schism

http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10461

Interesting stuff.  Stuff I’ve strangely been thinking about a lot these past few weeks or so.  Something I keep returning to is this simple statement- the fantasy I tend to like and the science fiction I tend to like combine aspects of both. It’s off that these days the schism seems to be ripped wider and wider, almost goatse-esque, revealing it’s bare insides for all to see.  Mundane SF.  Deep Fantasy.  Further they push the other, further apart.

Yet, the best stuff contains aspects of both, at least for me.  And it leads me to wonder- wither science fantasy?  Where did it go?  Once it the two had always borrowed and swiped concepts from each other.  but now, these days, they seem to push each other farther apart.  One of the reasons why I liked Perdido Street Station was because it threw everything together, into a big mish mash of crazy ideas that kind of bubbled up and spilled over and remixed themselves.

Just thinking out loud….