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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3024673" data-attributes="member: 22779">Meh.&nbsp; Psionics is magic by another name.&nbsp; There's absolutely no actual science there.&nbsp; Might as well call it The Force.&nbsp; It's about the same thing.&nbsp; How is &quot;I think it and it happens&quot; substantially different from, &quot;I say this funky word and it happens&quot;?&nbsp; Psionic ability is used in SF because SF writers can't call it magic.And, it's generally used by SF writers that are extremely close to fantasy.&nbsp; Anne McCaffery, while there is a very thin veneer of science that's been pasted onto Pern in recent years, wrote fantasy stories and called the SF.&nbsp; There's precious little science in the first three books and lots of swords and dragons.&nbsp; Star Wars, while it does have some SF bits and pieces, is pretty much fantasy with ray guns.Just a point about orcs in Tolkien.&nbsp; Throughout his books, he never actually directly describes an orc.&nbsp; There are no physical descriptions anywhere in LOTR or The Simiralian.&nbsp; So, any picture we come up with for an orc is just as good as another.&nbsp; The pig orcs are pretty much pulled straight from the original LOTR movie.&nbsp; The later 3e orc is no more a Tolkien construct than the first.&nbsp; I think your cutting off fantasy at an entirely arbitrary point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3024673, member: 22779"] Meh. Psionics is magic by another name. There's absolutely no actual science there. Might as well call it The Force. It's about the same thing. How is "I think it and it happens" substantially different from, "I say this funky word and it happens"? Psionic ability is used in SF because SF writers can't call it magic. And, it's generally used by SF writers that are extremely close to fantasy. Anne McCaffery, while there is a very thin veneer of science that's been pasted onto Pern in recent years, wrote fantasy stories and called the SF. There's precious little science in the first three books and lots of swords and dragons. Star Wars, while it does have some SF bits and pieces, is pretty much fantasy with ray guns. Just a point about orcs in Tolkien. Throughout his books, he never actually directly describes an orc. There are no physical descriptions anywhere in LOTR or The Simiralian. So, any picture we come up with for an orc is just as good as another. The pig orcs are pretty much pulled straight from the original LOTR movie. The later 3e orc is no more a Tolkien construct than the first. I think your cutting off fantasy at an entirely arbitrary point. [/QUOTE]

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