Episode 13: Is Star Wars Sci-Fi or Fantasy?

This episode, we talk Hard Science-Fiction (or Sci-fi), Soft Sci-fi, and Fantasy. Comparing and contrasting those different genres allows us to classify where Star Wars fits in. Before that, however, a clarifying question deriving from Episode 10, and a comment made about robots and androids.

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He scienced the heck out of this…with real science! That is some Hard Sci-Fi.

Here’s a Mars movie that goes softer on their Sci-Fi (Mission to Mars).

The epitome (and arguably the progenitor) of most of today’s modern fantasy.