My own response: I read both but I definitely have an extreme science fiction bias. I’ll eagerly accept a sonic screwdriver and mumbo-jumbo about warp cores and flux capacitors but be mostly indifferent to wands and spells.
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hmm i think i disagree with your null hypo - science fiction typically has the prospect of being a real account of the future, someday, whereas fantasy is nonsense with dragons and shit. but uh i'm clearly biased.
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And then you have Clark's 3rd law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" As a reformed hard Sci-fi-er, I found some fantasy where there was a tech inferred but so long ago implemented that it appeared magic ~ this worked for me
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Fantasy stories tend to be superhero chosen one narratives, science fiction something else. I would say from my position in the entertainment field that the audience for fantasy is much more broad than the audience for sci-fi.
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I think you might bounce off of fantasy because you fundamentally don’t believe that you’re more special than anyone else
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id argue fantasy is more escapist simply for of its worldbuilding
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Hm, fantasy sounds like the same story told over again and again. Scifi tend to tell different stories every time. Fantasy is just "a wizard did it" dead end. Scifi tends to provoke what-ifs and i-wonder-if-i-can-build-thats. Magic is hard to engineer.
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Love the last bit. Even in fantasy worlds where they've "scienced" their magic system, you get the sense that all the moving parts are pretty visible to you (that's why it feels consistent). And those parts don't often change from one fantasy to the next
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fantasy = fiction past Sci-fi = fiction future
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Over a long enough time line, science fiction turns into fact, while science fantasy remains just that
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