Darren New schrieb:
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> I've also read speculative fiction like "Hopscotch", where the basic 
> premise is that you can swap bodies with anyone who you touch, given 
> their permission. Sort of like the "surrogates" movie only swapping 
> between bodies. A group of kids grow up in the society, and this is 
> about how their lives go. The artist hops into homeless bums, crippled 
> people, etc to experience how they life and feel so he can make art 
> depicting that. The kid who grows up to be a cop chases down the little 
> old lady who won't give back the young healthy body she only contracted 
> for an hour. The young girl gets sucked into a cult where everybody 
> switches bodies about so much nobody knows who is in what body any more, 
> etc.  Is that fantasy or sci fi or something else? They never explain 
> how the swapping works, just that one day people started to be able to 
> do it.

Reminds me of the movies "Jumper", and also of "Being John Malcovich" - 
both of which could fit in either Fantasy or Science Fiction; it is only 
through the actual depiction of some details that I would tend to file 
"Jumper" as SciFi (the equipment of the Paladins - nothing else) while 
filing "Being John Malcovich" as Fantasy (the "Alice in 
Wonderland"-esque secret floor and door - again nothing else).

I guess referring to this as "alternate reality" would be most fitting. 
Fantasy could, in this sense, be considered a sub-genre, while Science 
Fiction would partially overlap with it.

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