The problem is that some people in our very real world believe telepathy is a real possibility.
I consider that some psychic phenomena exist, but that's why the distinction science fiction and science fantasy is a mistake; everything is fantasy with varying degrees of scientific notions.
In my opinion, all science fiction is fantasy, since science fiction begins when we rely on some scientific notion and add something that we do not know if it is possible or that is probably impossible, that is, fantastic. There is no real distinction between science fiction and science fantasy...
Also your definition wipe out a part of the genre, because Star Wars, Warhammer 40K, etc., would not be science fiction according to you, but they are science fiction according to many others, although those works are not hard science fiction. My idea of science fiction is that there is no...
But if Star Wars treated those elements realistically, then it would not be science fiction or fantasy.
So it's not science fiction, just fiction. Let's see, why would a story about a couple traveling in a spaceship to the moon be science fiction? It would be science fiction at the time of...
Star Wars also has elements of science fiction, it's not pure fantasy, it extrapolates the real space race and creates the whole world of interstellar travel. Or it is based on real robotics and creates all those fictional droids. Only those elements are less important than in other works of...
It is absurd that science fiction is more than fantasy. On the contrary, science fiction is a subgroup within fantasy: both are fantasy because they are fictitious and they do not seem that they can happen, but science fiction is based more on real science while fantasy is not. But the...
I would ask about the prominence of melee weapons over range weapons in fantasy settings. I think one reason is that it's easier for a melee weapon to become legendary, like Excalibur or Dragonslayer, than a range weapon. Legendary range weapons are in fiction works but they are much less...
There are two fields in literature: fiction and nonfiction. Nonfiction is about what happened or about general statements of reality. The fiction is divided into what did not happen but could happen, as James Bond, for example, and what did not happen and it seems that it could not happen, that...
1. How would you write your ideal magic-user character?
My ideal magic-user character is someone who lives in a world where magic is what is used when the technology is not enough. Not a typical magician, because they are psychic where psi is the basis of reality and they have decided or are...
We also have to note that the Jedi of the films are much weaker than the Jedi of the comics, because if we take the Jedi of the comics, then these Jedi are able to fly, teleport, become invisible, and many more things as versatile as the magic. So I think the Jedi from the movies lose against...
1- The Occlumency can only serve to prevent someone scan your mind, so that could prevent telepathic intrusion, but the combat precognition works in a very different, because the combat precognition refers not to the mind of the enemy, but to what the enemy will do in the near future, so the...
In a first encounter some Jedi could die because they would find themselves with unprecedented powers, but in the end the Jedi would win, because the wizards and witches only have magic are just not very military oriented, while the Jedi have the Force, lightsabers and more militarily oriented...