February 27, 2008

Scientific Fairy Tales

If you have some free time, go check out this interesting article about The Science of Fairy Tales. (It is short.) The author looks at the tales of Rapunzel, The Little Mermaid, the 1,001 Arabian Nights.

Makes me think that the lines between science fiction and fantasy are only getting blurrier, not more distinct, even to the point of having real science apply to traditionally magical tales.

Posted by John on February 27, 2008 03:29 PM | Posted to Fantasy/Scifi News
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Loved the Rapunzel hair/scalp strength analysis. That's just the sort of silly analysis I enjoy doing. Who says physicists can't have fun? (Not that I'm a physicist.)

Posted by: Tia on February 27, 2008 08:25 PM

I'm going to paraphrase, but I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who said any technology of sufficient advancement is magic.

Science fantasy stories use that one to the max ;)

Posted by: Sara J. on February 27, 2008 10:58 PM
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