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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 2337841" data-attributes="member: 20187">Hmm, I see what you are saying.  However, I think in science fiction the connection is far more explicit than in fantasy.  For example, a genie in a bottle is all well and good as a metaphor, but I don't think it really compares to, for example, something about genetic engineering.  The gene engineering is explicit, its value is that the actual scenario presented quite possibly could happen.  No one is actually going to meet a genie.Yes, but in the vast majority of fantasy societies, the conditions that give rise to them cannot be replicated in the real world at all.  (Mostly because of a lack of magic or similar elements.) Whereas in scifi, the conditions that give rise to the society are plausible (maybe improbable, but not impossible).The narratives she talks about are present in fantasy, but on a far more metaphorical level. They are far more "concrete" in science fiction, and I would argue that it is concreteness that gives science fiction its distinctive value.  So I would still say that the two genres do different things.</blockquote>