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Old 04-11-2008, 11:40 AM   #184
NatCh
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No worries, that's how the intelligent improve their views, by bouncing them off others. "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

Ah, now we're getting into the definition of "technology!"

Time travel and reality manipulation are favorite SciFi pretenses, but they could also be some sort of magic or mystical thing, I suppose. If you want to really pick those nits it'll come down to the actual mechanism for doing those things which the author has in mind. Could he be thinking of some sort of genetic mutation that causes these things? I'd call that SciFi. How about some sort of arcane artifact that the character has in his possession but may not even know about? I'd put that one in Fantasy. When he doesn't say, then you get to decide for yourself, but most folks will say SciFi, simply because that's how those ideas have generally been grouped.

Then again, you know what they say about technology and magic: Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ... or something like that.

In any case, when you try to draw arbitrary categories on anything you'll always have a few that don't really fit anywhere, and get kind of glommed on somewhere "close enough." That's why I specified that as being my definition (I got it off L. Ron Hubbard, by the way), I wasn't trying to be definitive.
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