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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Sorry, I already rate those things as magic pretending to be technology.
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Originally Posted by whswhs
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.
Bill Stoddard
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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...