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Old 07-18-2022, 08:04 AM   #14
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Default Re: You got magic in my scifi game!

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin View Post
Sorry, I already rate those things as magic pretending to be technology.
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It's the "pretending to be technology" that makes it science fiction rather than fantasy. H.G. Wells was explicit about that in discussing his own stories.

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...and then you get weird stuff like David Gemmell novels where it's never entirely clear as to whether the sufficiently advanced technology is the magic or is just how the precursors managed it. Or the cheese fondue that is the backstory lore of Harn...
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