Narrative, Resonance and Genre at SF Novelists

Aliette de Bodard

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:47 GM

Third person. limited is a relatively recent development: novels such as the ones I cite above are written in omniscient, often with the narrator intervening in a more or less explicit fashion. ... the division between SF, and fantasy in the West (roughly and to simplify, SF has scientific plausibility, fantasy has magic spells) does not quite work the same in countries where religious belief or some . form. of spirituality is much more widespread and concomitant with science ...