Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31507215-20170702035755/@comment-30561367-20170818003630

Dragonslayer7899 wrote: Catfishperson wrote:

2607:F140:6000:3:149E:32AC:B9E9:4859 wrote: Honestly? Our sci-fi is 'techy' but we don't understand any of the actually technology behind it- we're just branding it under technology and imagine that this gap had been succesfully covered.

It's basically a story that uses the basis of advanced tech to explain certain things that are happening / can happen

The middle-age's sci-fi is magic, which is basically the same as our sci-fi except they explain all the wierd stuff with magic.

It's basically a story that uses the basis of magic to explain certain things that are happening / can happen.

The only distinction is that now we imagine Science fiction as the future and Fantasy as the past.

Was this the case then? Eh, that really depends on the story. Stories like "Star Wars?" Pretty much. Although some stories such as "Ender's Game" we know to be fairly realistic (Going up to like the third book anyway, and excluding humanoid aliens) and the technology understood. What's unrealistic about humanoid aliens?

IKR? Perhaps the same that is unrealistic about elves, dwarves, maiar, valar, wraiths, etc, but even those seem semi-realistic to me.