Scifi is when you get shot by a blaster bolt
Fantasy is when you take an arrow to the knee
Burn the Eldar
My dividing line is “am I watching for the plot or for the ideas?”
pats amplifier “This goes to elven”
Does it have a scanner bed or do they just stick you in a regular old bed by a waterfall and hope for the best?
If there’s magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it’s Science Fantasy
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Corrollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Where does the Witcher universe fall with its alien elves?
Still high fantasy
generic fantasy
The elves aren’t aliens, humans are.
Ooh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol
Why?
Arthur C. Clarke has entered the chat
So we are living in science fantasy. No one has any idea where the four fundamental forces come from. They just “exist” like magical forces.
What about force fields?
I separate by the mechanics at play: do supernatural things exist in places they do not exist in reality (humans doing telekinesis, mind reading for example… Or outright magic like the force)? If yes, it’s likely fantasy.
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