Is an invasion of energy beings from another dimension still science fiction or already fantasy?
Depends on whether you call it magic or use a technobabble term.
>>47257036
It's science fantasy.
>>47257390
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>>47257036
Depends entirely on how it's presented.
That's the only real distinction between sci-fi and fantasy.
>>47257036
Depends on whether scientists have given up on understanding them.
>>47257036
Fantasy
>>47257036
Entirely arbitrary.
>>47257846
>>47257600
Genre theorists seem to agree that the distinction is largely aesthetic.
>>47257390
There's no such thing.
If it's Science Fiction, even extremely soft Science Fiction then it's part of the genre Science Fiction.
Take your imaginary line in the sand elsewhere.
>>47258852
"Science fantasy is a mixed genre within the umbrella of speculative fiction which simultaneously draws upon and/or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. It also sometimes incorporates elements of horror fiction."
Autistic people have a hard time understanding that there's more than black and white too anon.
>>47257036
> energy beings from another dimension
[PLANET DANCE INTENSIFIES]
>>47257036
It doesn't matter unless you care about hard-sci-fi.
When it comes to discussing genre and shit like magic it really sucks here.
If the energy beings are violent and kill us it's science fiction, but if they come in peace it's fantasy.
>>47257036
Yes.
>>47257036
Since science fiction is a subset of fantasy, the answer to your question is "42."
>>47264748
This.
Mostly.
Straight SciFi is a subset of "low" fantasy in that it is speculative in nature, so it necessarily stays within the bounds of Newtonian physics and, wherever possible, projects forward or sideways from actual recorded history. When it gets silly, and goes "extra-planar/ dimensional/ Alt-Earth/ etc. it can be freed from boring constraints like physics and those tiresome Euclidean geometries. Then, it becomes "high" fantasy.
AKA, Science Fantasy.
So kinda like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ42p40qDEc
That was a weird movie.
