Harlan Ellison would say Star Wars is "Sci-Fi", but not "Science Fiction". https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1309147923964407808">https://twitter.com/nberlat/s...

I feel like "Science Fiction" and "Fantasy" are both tentpole terms, each comprising a suite of not only themes but aesthetics

The Star Wars films (excepting SOLO and ROGUE ONE) have almost no science fiction themes but lots of science fiction aesthetic https://twitter.com/scots_dragon/status/1309213539429646338">https://twitter.com/scots_dra...

This is pertinent to me right now since I& #39;ve been writing a lot about how J.K. Rowling is SCARED of science fiction themes in her fantasy; the idea of meaningfully transforming society or exploring the idea of what it means to be "alive", "dead", "woman", or "human" frightens her

Modern Fantasy usually avoids becoming sci-fi by having its fantastical elements tempered by rarity and accessibility; e.g., the existence of wizards in THE DRESDEN FILES doesn& #39;t matter because such things are niche and too divorced from normality to change things macroscopically

the POTTER books can& #39;t take this exit; wizardry is not merely an entire institutionalized world of the elite but it *explicitly undergirds all of human society*, including that of muggles

It requires the idiom of science fiction to explain how this changes things, yet absconds