![]() ![]() ![]() One day Lynesse comes to Nyr’s door asking for his help to fight a “demon” loose on the land. Nyr is an anthropologist sent from Earth to study the culture of a colony planet long separated from Earth and its history. She inhabits a world that seems medieval, where queens rule the lands and swordsmen battling evil are mythological heroes. Lynesse is the youngest daughter of the ruler of her land. What is so much fun about Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new novella Elder Race is that it is both science fiction and fantasy. The best of both science fiction and fantasy use their imagined settings to tell stories that examine the human condition, and give us insights about ourselves. These imagined worlds of sci fi and fantasy include such different realities as Middle Earth with its elves and ents, and its humans and hobbits and the Vulcan home world with its star traveling warp drive, and a culture based on logic and reason at odds with their warlike cousins from the planet Romulus. Fantasies are set in a romanticized era with elements from history, often with battles between good and evil that are fought with shield and sword. Science Fiction stories are set in a far advanced time when technology can do remarkable things. ![]() ![]() Science Fiction and Fantasy are two distinct things, and also two sides of the same coin.īoth genres tend to have settings in imagined places. ![]()
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