Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?
Libra@lemmy.ml 5 days agoThey don’t treat it like high tech, they treat it like their granddad’s old beater of a car that somehow never dies or fails to get you where you’re going, but somehow never does a particularly good job either. They treat technology like we treat trees: a brute fact of life with some occasional redeeming qualities.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
Just because they don’t treat it like it’s advanced, doesn’t mean it isn’t advanced. Most tech in most sci-fi works is treated as a fact of life, no one goes “holy shit, they just invented hovercars!”.
Libra@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
We’re talking about technology in the context of a story here, so whether or not it’s high tech to the reader is besides the point. Which, as I was trying to elucidate, is that what matters is how the characters treat technology relative to magic, not the audience.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
That’s not how science fiction works.
Libra@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Guy’s over here talking about a story involving tech and magic and you’re talking about how sci-fi works? I think you’re confused about how genres work.