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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I really hate SF being lumped in with fantasy. Sure, there are some "rules" in fantasy, but they get to make them up. Science has its own rules and good SF had better obey them if it wants to be credible. But when people conflate SF and fantasy, they denigrate the increased discipline that has to be maintained in SF.
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Partly because so many famous comics, TV shows and Movies are only SF because they are in the future, or in space or "special powers" and labelled as SF. They use magic called technology.
Most successful SF (movies, comics, TV and many novels, but not as much as the visual media) seems to ignore not just known science, but logic and Laws of Thermodynamics. Lots of "Magic by another name" and technobabble.
Most successful material labelled as SF has less "rules" than many High Fantasy works.
There is no sharp division.
Dune and Pern Series are sold as SF, but have more Fantasy elements than SF elements.