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I agree with the Greek mythology point, I just made the same one in anther comment. But I wouldn't consider Guardians or Star Wars to be science fiction since
by humanrebar 9y ago
I agree with the Greek mythology point, I just made the same one in anther comment.
But I wouldn't consider Guardians or Star Wars to be science fiction since "what if" is not a huge element of either. I'd consider each to be "space operas" and have more in common with adventures (Indiana Jones, The Mummy), fantasy (magicians and monsters), or Westerns than science fiction proper.
- Retric 9y agoStar Wars is almost pure fantasy. Lightsabers block blasters because they are Bow vs sword analogs. The big evil is a guy in a robe who shoots lightning from his fingers etc. Hell the armor even seems to be purely asthetic. Replace 'spaceships' with boats and 'planets' with islands and the entire story works just fine.
- krapp 9y agoStar Wars is science fantasy in the style of old 1930's pulp serials and stories like the Lensman series or Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars books... which still makes it a subset of science fiction, if not necessarily by modern standards.