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Re:Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Al... by Retric on Sunday October 29, 2017 @09:15PM (#15582512)
Star 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.

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Re:Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Al... by krapp on Sunday October 29, 2017 @09:29PM (#15582556)
Star 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.
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