Do you prefer spy fiction or science fiction? Why?
EDIT: It seems people do prefer sci-fi over spy fiction! My rationale for making the question is that Invisible Inc covers both genres (as is typical in cyberpunk, as commenters below noted), but I wanted people to have to decide which among the two is their favourite one.
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Why not both? That's what most cyberpunk boils down to, anyway.
But if I have to choose, then science fiction all the way. Good sci-fi can give you ideas and vistas that few other genres of literature can.
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I love both, but if I had to choose I'd go for sci-fi. I just really enjoy watching/reading/playing anything in that setting. But I'm a even bigger fan of Cyberpunk, like the Shadowrun games for instance. Love that setting.
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Positive on that, Chummer!
See you out in the sprawl, omae...hopefully on the same side. ;)
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Sci-fi since it gives a lot more wiggle room for competent writers to create exciting universes.
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I love sci-fi and the practically endless possibilities of world-building it comes along with, so I would choose that as well :)
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Spy fiction can be more realistic while science fiction makes everything possible. Don't really have any preference there.
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Good question. Haven't really thought of it as a dichotomy between these two particular genres, but I guess the easy way out would be a combination of the two :) That said, if I had to choose, I would go for sci-fi as well. The scope is just so much wider than the somewhat narrow constraints of spy fiction. I love everything from Star Trek to Blade Runner, and spy dramas, as good as they are, just can't keep up with the wealth of ideas in those works. That said, one of my favourite films is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (haven't read the book), and there's few works of science fiction that would rival the brilliance of that one in my book.
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Ha, I just wrote the exact same thing for the exact same reason, and even used the same examples. :)
As far as sci-fi works to rival Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I have several recommendations (all books): Dune, Neuromancer, The Left Hand of Darkness, and two Timothy Zahn trilogies - Conquerors' trilogy (Conquerors' Pride, etc) and Thrawn trilogy (Heir to the Empire, etc).
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... ok, while there is much more to add it seems there is few to add for a GA :)
That said I'll only add Spy vs Spy I've enjoyed in my youth as part of Mad Magazine
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💙 😃
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both actually ^_^
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Sci fi is my preference especially for movies.
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Hvala puno!
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I enjoy both, but if I had to chose one I'd go with science fiction. I think sci-fi is just so much more broad in scope, so you have everything from hard sci-fi to space opera to cyberpunk, from Star Trek to Star Wars to Blade Runner. You could have tiny robots, or giant mechs, or regular humanoids that aren't actually human.
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These 2 settings stimulate your creativity differently, that is one reason I think.
Spy Fiction makes you create smarter and smarter ways of ... playing the spy, or the bad guy, within a known world (or mostly known if the age is different than the current decade.
Science Fiction, as a mostly unknown world, makes you feel 'anything can happen' intensively, and you hope for and expect very surprising events. Makes you more adventurous, less moral maybe.
Now combine the two :) Double the fun.
Anyway, thank you for the wishlist-GA
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Sci-Fi probably.... gives you the idea, how the future could look like, which is interesting :)
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Well, if you take the James Bond films as an example, theyre often both (Moonraker for example) - especially considering the gadgets,
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Thank you for making this giveaway. ^_^
Sci-fi for me. I just like it, it's my thing. ^_^
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Thanks =)
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Glad to hear this is more science fiction. Most games that try to tackle themes and settings like this end up resorting to more science fantasy to make it fun.
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Well, to be fair, I think it is a bit of science fantasy as you call it, but I didn't want to get too involved with the details. Sorry for giving you the wrong idea!
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Thank you for the chance to win this game.
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Science fiction is a setting and not a story type. I enjoy adventure stories when they are set in science fiction. Adventure stories are good, a hero's journey is nice to have a ride though.
Thanks for putting this up Vendae. I don't generally find spy stories all that exceptional, they are good when done well though.
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Thanks a lot for this game!
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