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Originally Posted by gmw
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.
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Explaining things can be a mistake, too. Midichlorians, for example. But then again, Star Wars has always really been space fantasy.