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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7972710" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I think you are both slightly mis-representing what Dave's goal is.He mentioned before that he is a scientist professionally, so he wants to make a distinction."Science Fiction" is a genre, and it has many different branches.However, when discussing things like Doctor Who or Psionics, he wants to distinguish them from things like Dyson spheres or AGI (found out that is the new term for Artificial Intelligence's that have emotional intelligence) . "Science Fantasy" or "Fantastical Science" is being used by Dave for things we know are impossible. You just cannot do these things. And in a cultural environment where science is under constant attack, Dave feels a need to point that out. Some of the "science" presented in Sci-Fi stories is just bunk, impossible thoughts that will never come true.It isn't a claim whatsoever on the genre definition, just the feasibility of the science involved, since Science Fiction has a long history of predicting actual advances in science.I would want to argue something, not sure how you will take it though.I would argue there are no two genres more similar to each other than fantasy and sci-fi. As much as we ackowledge that all genres are mixes, those two are the closest cousins you can find, in my opinion.</blockquote>