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Science Fiction and Fantasy Essay

Science Fantasy

-Fantasy is the discovery of the real world within the unreal, the credible within the incredible, it constructs new futures for the exploration of the great complexities of human existence, life, love, death and morality.
Ursaula K.LeGuin


Science fantasy is no doubt “the discovery of the real world within the unreal, the credible within the incredible, it …….” as quoted above by Ursaula K.LeGuin. We can clearly experience these concepts in Sara Douglass’s “Battle Axe”. Sara Douglass takes us on a magical journey though the created and magnificent lands of Achar (Tencedor), though this journey we experience the thrills of discovering a new world, a world complicated by wars, race differences, life, love, religion, survival and so much more. It is a hard book to put down once picked up.

The creation of a real world within the unreal is evident before you even read one word of the story. There ...