• TheDankHold
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    21 year ago

    Sounds like you think dune was pretty unscientific for not describing the chemical makeup of spice. Still a science fiction story. You don’t have to spell out every detail of a tech for it to be scientific in a fictional story. You seem to understand this in bringing up dune even.

    What medieval fantasy world has world war 2 styled flying combat? I think your read is way off base. It’s science fantasy, a blend of common fantasy and sci fi. There are attempts to give scientific explanations to concepts that aren’t magical like FTL and there are mystical explanations given for things that are magical like the force.

    Bottom line is that even fantasy needs some grounding or the story becomes uninteresting and hard to follow. It’s a space fantasy but that doesn’t mean technology is absent from the world.

    Btw the explanation I gave for FTL is what was said if it in the original trilogy so don’t act like it’s not firmly established.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Yes, it’s science fantasy. I mean that’s what I also meant by sci fi and fantasy being under the same category in many countries and languages.

      Sci fi is not about scientific accuracy. It was born in the time of scientificism, of science as a mystical force almost. Sci fi is more about space lasers and robots than science.

      Hard sci fi that actually takes science into account is a later development.

      Star Wars is closer to the “traditional” sci fi ideas than hard sci fi. And that’s the only thing I was saying.