I sometimes have trouble choosing set categories for my books. For instance, my genre. My science fiction books have definite fantasy elements, even as Star Wars, for instance.
Science is the basis for my plot and the books feature things like dimensional portals, high tech (beyond our own), physics, elementary scientific principles and characters from our own earth. Definitely science fiction, right?
However, there are also dragons, elves, unicorns and other mythical creatures within the context of my story and my characters find themselves on a quest to defeat evil in the multiverse.
Of course, in the context of science fiction, all of these creatures appearance in The Dimensional Alliance book series have a scientific explanation for their appearance. There is no “magic” per se in the books, “No foolish wand waving…” However, I have always been of the opinion that apparent magic is only science we don’t understand yet.
So much in the multiverse is unexplainable by even our most advanced scientific hypotheses. Only recently have scientists posited about the origins of the aurora borealis, for instance.
And don’t get me started on the human body. There is so very much we don’t understand. And how big is the universe/multiverse? And where did it really begin? The “big bang” theory can only take us so far and so much of the information it is based on are still only theory. And how small is the smallest particle in existence, higgs bosun nothwithstanding…do we really know?
So my dilemma stands. Are my books science fiction? Are they fantasy? In the end it only matters when I try to categorize them or put them into a predetermined pigeonhole.
Even when it comes to the science as presented in the books, how much of it is far-fetched theory? All I can say is…it IS fiction, after all.