Fantasy is one of the most popular genres of the moment. Iron Flame the sequel to Rebecca Yarros’ book Fourth Wing is sitting at 29th on Amazon’s best-seller list, and it’s not even out until November. This is not the first time Fantasy has been a fad. In the 70s & 80s readers we
Science Fantasy is a weird category. I mean you take a futuristic setting and then treat is as Fantasy with minimal work on the science side. I would argue that most of Star Wars fits that bill.
However, why put Ilium by Dan Simmons as Science Fantasy? As far as I recall, the science was pretty well grounded.