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Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40 by kennywinker on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:28AM (#31891578)
I’m going to jump in here because I started this fight (tho i’d never heard the term wuxia before so maybe I’m unqualified) - but here we go - from the wikipedia definition of fantasy:

> Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap

So perhaps I was overly dismissive. Narratively, it seems to me that star wars shares more in common with fantasy stories than sci-fi (chosen one, magic, battle between good and evil, sword that is your birthright, etc), but the setting is a sci-fi one (interplanetary war, clones, androids, space fleets). As wikipedia say “these genres overlap”.

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Re:‘Blade Runner’ at 40 by deltaonefour on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:42AM (#31895229)
It's not a fight, it's a discussion.

The magic stuff actually has (or had) sort of a background explanation based in "science" so overall I would say it's more sci-fi.

In many cases I would even argue genres like sci-fi and fantasy don't involve the plot at all. These genres exclusively refer to the setting.

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