From Pixels to Plastic
This is opposed to how I see fantasy stories working:
- So here’s a thing vs. Oh no!
- Something else 1
- Something else 2
- Something else 3
- The magic sword smites the evil somethings that appeared 2 pages ago and will disappear in 2 pages never to be heard from again
- Continued in book 7
Um. This isn’t to say I’m down on fantasy. These patterns are independent of content. You take the sci-fi pattern or the fantasy pattern and you sprinkle in spaceships or swords or whatever.
Vampires.
You know. Aliens and Jupiter brains.
Whatever.
Dragons.
This is all space opera is. Galactic-scale fantasy, just one thing after another, continued in book 7.