Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?

• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They 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.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨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!”.

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s not how science fiction works.

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