Harlan Ellison would say Star Wars is "Sci-Fi", but not "Science Fiction".https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1309147923964407808 …
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Vapor Weyve Retweeted Emma Mac (she/her) 🏳️⚧️
I feel like "Science Fiction" and "Fantasy" are both tentpole terms, each comprising a suite of not only themes but aesthetics The Star Wars films (excepting SOLO and ROGUE ONE) have almost no science fiction themes but lots of science fiction aesthetichttps://twitter.com/scots_dragon/status/1309213539429646338 …
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This is pertinent to me right now since I've been writing a lot about how J.K. Rowling is SCARED of science fiction themes in her fantasy; the idea of meaningfully transforming society or exploring the idea of what it means to be "alive", "dead", "woman", or "human" frightens her
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Modern Fantasy usually avoids becoming sci-fi by having its fantastical elements tempered by rarity and accessibility; e.g., the existence of wizards in THE DRESDEN FILES doesn't matter because such things are niche and too divorced from normality to change things macroscopically
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
fantasy also generally has very strong anthropocentric aspects to its magic--doing things that would alter the human condition is invariably somehow Beyond The Pale and requires Great Sacrifice and Difficulty
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy
hence it being normal and easy in The Magicians to jaunt around the multiverse, but impossibly difficult to (say) cure cancer, or perform cosmetic surgery on yourself, because Sickness and Being Plain are just things the human must learn to live with
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy
Stuff like Mage the Ascension gets explicit about the meta nature of this - whenever you try to do something in the normal world you're fighting "the consensus" of what is and isn't possible here, and the rules literally change if you just abandon Earth for Doissetep
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
like i can give considered genre analyses of this trope but there's also a part of me that's always just screaming BULLSHIT!
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like seriously even if you want an anthropocentric universe, building conservativism into the fabric of reality is just lazy, caveman science fiction at its worst
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I mean, like I said, it's meta, it's a necessary explanation for why there's magic in this universe at all and yet the world is recognizably the world outside our window
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