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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
And you can argue that a fair number of books that could be called SF when written have become Science Fantasy now, simply because we've learned better, and we're aware, for example, that there isn't a habitable surface under the clouds of Venus.
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I would argue that, if proven science was required for speculative works to be considered Science Fiction, then they should all be labeled Fantasy until all scientific speculation is proven!
Seriously, I don't think the disproving of a theory should automatically relegate all SF to fantasy. SF is scientific speculation for entertainment's sake, not an attempt to actually divine the future. And it is still different from fantasy, which has its own separate set of rules. (Anybody gonna start a "Rules of Fantasy" thread?)