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Brad Westness
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I'm no expert but IMO fantasy is when supernatural is real (there are deities and shit walking around) and sci-fi is when the stuff is all meant to be explicable (there are obviously a lot of blurry lines, like Dune having elements of both)

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was talking to my 8yo about what’s sci fi and what’s fantasy articulate the difference between technology and magic in one post. go

Brad Westness
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But I do think there's a difference in-world of, like, "read this incantation out of an old book and it somehow causes stuff to happen IRL" versus "we created the torment nexus"

Brad Westness
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I don't think the implication in most fantasy is that saying the magic words is actually just a trigger that activates a technology sufficiently advanced such that it seems magical, it's meant to be inexplicable "real magic" that works via some kind of divine influence

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