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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7093100" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Yes, but Firefly almost certainly should fit in the science fantasy or space fantasy genera, with it's t-paths and pre-cogs, it's heavy reliance on the fantasy Western and the genera tropes there of, and the fact that it plays extremely fast and loose with physics to the extent of being set in what is a effectively an alternative universe. No FTL, but to get a FTL like type Star Trek universe where each village is a whole trope world, it simply imagines a solar system with 100's of Earth-like worlds existing in a vast habitable zone larger than the solar system - something no real universe solar system could manage and be stable in epochal time to say nothing of the massive problems of a star or stars warming such a system. The engine of the ship is ridiculously low tech, to the point of resembling a diesel engine, and yet seems to generate gravity and anti-gravity fields. So basically, it's magic, and we aren't supposed to think hard about the science-y stuff. In fact, one of the commandments in the writer's bible for Firefly is basically that no technology will exist that will essentially transform life as we know it now. Or in other words, the science has no impact on the setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7093100, member: 4937"] Yes, but Firefly almost certainly should fit in the science fantasy or space fantasy genera, with it's t-paths and pre-cogs, it's heavy reliance on the fantasy Western and the genera tropes there of, and the fact that it plays extremely fast and loose with physics to the extent of being set in what is a effectively an alternative universe. No FTL, but to get a FTL like type Star Trek universe where each village is a whole trope world, it simply imagines a solar system with 100's of Earth-like worlds existing in a vast habitable zone larger than the solar system - something no real universe solar system could manage and be stable in epochal time to say nothing of the massive problems of a star or stars warming such a system. The engine of the ship is ridiculously low tech, to the point of resembling a diesel engine, and yet seems to generate gravity and anti-gravity fields. So basically, it's magic, and we aren't supposed to think hard about the science-y stuff. In fact, one of the commandments in the writer's bible for Firefly is basically that no technology will exist that will essentially transform life as we know it now. Or in other words, the science has no impact on the setting. [/QUOTE]
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