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Old 03-07-2021, 11:35 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Though sci-fi does demand a small amount of thought or logic on the part of the reader, viewer or listener, fantasy, on the other hand, really doesn’t. The clue is in the name: in science fiction everything has to be rooted, at least in part, in workable science.
Not so sure about that. What do you mean by workable? What seems impossible today could be absolutely workable in just 50 years.

So you're saying if the science doesn't seem workable it's merely fantasy?
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