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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
while I'm still @page 2 of the thread I HAVE to object to some things:
Jelby: the SF=explained; Fantasy=just because doesn't fit.
There ARE enough Examples in fantasy giving you backgrounded in it self logical explanations for e.g. their magic systems (my fav. eddings belgariad & malloreon saga) so saying Fantasy is because of handwaveium is wrong.
Andrew H. no wizards in space but Zen-trained-warrior monks
(there are enough clues to zen buddhism and meditative practics in there)
so what now is it SF or Fantasy?
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In the Belgariad the actual power may have been "the will and the word" but most of the practitioners still did a lot of hand-waving. The books still offered no real explanation for magic in any terms that anyone here on Earth are likely to find as logical and believable - which is, I imagine, what Jelby meant by "science-fiction tends to explain things". Fantasy often "explains things" too, but only within context, not as something externally believable.
I don't think we should start the subject of whether zen buddhism is fantasy or not - that's what the Politics and Religion forum is for.