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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3991284" data-attributes="member: 32536">Not really. Science fiction is equally well defined as any kind of story that has advanced or otherwise special technology as part of the setting and/or plot. Whether the technology drives the plot or not is mostly irrelevant. At the very least, that is the definition that I see most widely used.The problem with saying that Star Wars is not science fiction because it draws its origins from fairy-tales, or that Star Trek draws inspiration from exploration, is that you are falsely claiming that something can only fall into a single genre. Star Wars is both a fairy-tale and science fiction. The science fiction elements make it as different from classic fairy-tales as the fairy-tale elements make it different from classic science fiction. The same can be said for Star Trek.Is Bladerunner any less of a science fiction story because it is a Film Noir-style detective story that happens to be based in a futuristic setting? Is the Iron Giant any less of a science fiction story because it is a story of a boy encountering a wondrous new friend (which is its own genre, easily)? I say that they are not, and the same logic applies to any thing on that list.</blockquote>