Thread: National Science Fiction Day
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Old 01-05-2019, 12:52 PM   #34
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I agree. In my own cataloging many books of that nature are simply tagged as speculative fiction as I can't quite bring myself to consider psi powers when presented as some sort of innate power as even fictional science but I know that they weren't intended to be fantasy.
That annoys me, too, when they try to make it sound "scientific" by calling it PSI. Now, if they had a plausible reason for the existence of this "power," based in physical reality, then it can be called science fiction. If there is no plausible explanation, then it's magic and fantasy. It's okay to sidestep the problem by using the term "speculative fiction." What I don't like is people assuming that science can be lumped in with fantasy.
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