Judge John Hodgman’s Case for Categorizing ‘Star Wars’ as Fantasy (www.nytimes.com)

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The series has never been science fiction.

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I would say, rather, that the implicit set of laws governing a sci-fi world are a superset of those currently understood to govern ours, while in a fantasy world the governing laws contradict those governing ours.

I like this a lot. It covers really old sci fi like Mary Shelley or Jules Verne, and reinforces the idea that fantasy stories (good ones, anyway) need to also have laws.

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