1st March 2003, 2:43 PM
Yeah, but really though, why isn't magic considered sci fi? It's a completely fictional way the universe works, and if Q and the force is considered sci fi all other types of magic should be sci fi too.
As for fantasy, anything that is a fantastical adventure is a fantasy if you ask me. If people fantasize about going on that adventure, or if it's not a real world but one imagined, why isn't fantasy a good word? I think it all goes back to nerd semantics. Only a bunch of the geeks would be coming together to say a fantasy isn't a fantasy unless there is magic or something assanine like that.
As for fantasy, anything that is a fantastical adventure is a fantasy if you ask me. If people fantasize about going on that adventure, or if it's not a real world but one imagined, why isn't fantasy a good word? I think it all goes back to nerd semantics. Only a bunch of the geeks would be coming together to say a fantasy isn't a fantasy unless there is magic or something assanine like that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)