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Originally Posted by rkomar
Heh! Most science fiction is fantasy from a scientific point of view. Faster than light travel and communications, time travel, transporters, normal gravity on space ships, no worries about radiation in space, high-volume trade between planets and star systems,... That "science" is just as imaginary as the magic in fantasy novels.
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Yup! Call it all "speculative fiction" and feel free to attempt to subdivide from there. The best definition for F/SF I've been able to come up with is that it asks the question "what if?" (This is why alt-history is so often included in F?SF too.)