We all know the difference between fantasy and sci fi
Just came across this via it being shared by WordPress blogger,
https://www.scifiwright.com/2022/05/science-fantasy/
Fairy tales have monsters and science fiction has space monsters.
Fairy tales have absurd, unbelievable, impossible things like true love, heroic sacrifice, noble knights, holy hermits, and fair damsels chaste and pure, whereas science fiction has believable and realistic science things like time machines, mind reading, parallel worlds and faster than light drive.
When Gandalf the Gray returns from the dead, this is a miracle arranged by the Valar, the angelic powers of the world; but when Spock returns from the dead this is mumble mumble mind meld something something genesis torpedo something.
So far so good. But what of stories that have both?
Blogger who shared it: https://carolinefurlong.wordpress.com/2 ... -wright-2/
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Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011
What was described in the OP are the similarities between magic fantasy and science fantasy.
Science fiction involves reasonable extrapolations of known scientific principles, with a minimum of gimmicks (if any, at all) like FTL travel and FTL communications.
Sadly, most 'hard' science-fiction would not pass muster with those interested only in special effects and epic battles, where the order of the day is "Make our movie more boomier and zoomier than the last one". It is likely that more people remember the worst "Star-Something" fantasy movie than a quality science-fiction movie like "Gravity".
I have to wonder if the person who wrote that essay has ever read the classics: Asimov's "Foundation" series; Bradbury's "Marian Chronicles"; or Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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