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   XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.tv.lost   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 03:36:39 -0700 (PDT), SFTV_troy   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >   
   >Sean Carroll wrote:   
   >> "SFTV_troy"  wrote   
   >>   
   >> > "it's science fantasy"   
   >> >   
   >> > I'm sorry but these two words do NOT belong together.  You can have   
   >> > "science fiction", where you have a made-up plot but based upon Real   
   >> > science (i.e. the described plot could actually happen).     -----  Or   
   >> > you can have "fantasy fiction" where the made-up plot is supplemented   
   >> > by made-up universal laws (like magic).   You can not have science and   
   >> > fantasy at the same time.   
   >>   
   >> I think a little-known, obscure guy named Arthur C Clarke would disagree   
   >   
   >But even the grandmaster would never say that "Newton's Law of   
   >Gravity" and "magic flying people who pretend gravity does not exist"   
   >could exist within the same story.   
      
   Excuse me?  Have you ever read 2001:  A Space Odysey?  Do you remember   
   how it ends?  Yes, that's right with a magic flying person who   
   pretends gravity does not exist.   
      
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