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Perhaps while Fantasy and SF both deal with the unreal, they differ only in ''how'' unreal. One man's (not to mention one century's) Fantasy is another man's''/''century's Science-Fiction. On the other hand, when Sci-Fi includes [[Dragonriders of Pern|time-traveling dragons,]] mind-controlling spells on a planetary scale, and [[Star Trek|the ghosts of the dead possessing starships,]] it's not clear that it's possible to get any more unreal.
If you label your work "Science-Fiction" and push some people's [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] too far, you've got a problem: they might accept the plot, character development, narrative devices, etc. as a coherent story, but they won't accept it as a ''sci-fi'' story because the [[Like Reality Unless Noted|impossible]] is only there "because I said so." Even if every planet the heroes encounter is based on a different time/place from Earth's history (perfect internal consistency), the audience will want to know why any such thing should ever be. If you label your work "Fantasy," it seems like you can get away with anything except breaking [[Magic
Some say the safest way to distinguish between the two has, for the better or worse, come down to [[Settings]]:
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To a lesser extent, this conflict can be portrayed as [[Magic Versus Science|outright antagonism between magic and technology]], sometimes [[Harmony Versus Discipline|used as a theme.]] Occasionally it's even [[Lampshaded]] with a [[The Magic Versus Technology War|shooting war between the two]].
A recurring theme in the conflict seems to be a desire to force [[Fantasy]] elements into a more 'realistic' [[Science Fiction]] [[Doing in
On the other hand, some works embrace elements from both fantasy and science fiction settings, creating a [[Science Fantasy]] hybrid. Instead of worrying about trying to fit into a genre, they follow other rules, such as [[Rule of Cool]] or [[Rule of Funny]] to build the setting within the larger envelope of [[Speculative Fiction]].
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