I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
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Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.
If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else.
In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.