on 28/1/03 10:53 pm, Alberto Monteiro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jon Gabriel wrote: >> >>> Well Star Wars is hardly SF... >> >> No, Star Wars is definitely SF. It's just terribly bad SF on certain >> levels. Under what genre would you classify Star Wars if not under SF? >> > Star Wars is science/fantasy, because there's a strong component > of magic mixed with tech gadgets. Come to think of it, so is Buffy. > > > But Buffy is more hard-(science/fantasy) than Star Wars, because > the Axioms of the Jossverse are testable by experiments done in > that Universe, while in Star Wars the rules of the world keep changing > across the movies. > > Come on, people. Buffy is _humour_. The fun of it is the absurdity of > the almost **self-consistent** Jossverse, where Vampires, Demons, > Zombies, Witches, etc share the world with XX and XXI century > technology.
I think Buffy (and Angel) are more toward the science fiction end of the science fantasy scale. Science fantasy with a hard-sf attitude, like John Campbell published in _Unknown_. Less fantasy than Star Wars despite the trappings of space ships and robots. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time. Just look at Windows. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
