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Originally Posted by arjaybe
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.
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An awful lot of SF would fall into the realms of "magic and fantasy", if we were to use that definition. Any book featuring faster-than-light travel, for example. I'm not so picky, myself. I'm happy to accept as SF any technology which is consistent with the "world" of the book, rather than insisting on an explanation with is plausible by the standards of today's science.