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Can it still be interesting to the reader?
Any examples of authors who did this well?

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>>12489844
> pic related

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>>12489844
Pitch the idea.
Is it just a medieval setting on another world?
Been done by the Strugatski brothers, but now you see it's science fiction of a sort. (I like the term social science fiction)
The alien world has flying lizards? Dragons of Pern is a nice hybrid. (I don't think there's magic in it)

>> No.12490000

>>12489844
practically speaking anything can be good or great, the problem is in the execution of these things.

>> No.12490012

>>12489844
Almost all science fiction takes place in a fantasy world.

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>> No.12491684

>>12490000
Quads speak the truth.

>>12490012
does the real world automatically turn into a fantasy world when it's set in the future?

>> No.12491748

>>12490012
Almost all science fiction also involves magic (physically impossible technology)

>> No.12492004

>>12491748
Most hard sci-fi just takes an unknown and says "what if I filled this unknown".
>What if aliens actually existed.
>What if a yet undiscovered exotic element could bend spacetime.
>What if there are yet undiscovered aspects to reality that start to surface.
>What if a current technology can be upgraded in the future to do similar but cooler things, we just don't know how, yet.

All of these things don't need to contradict anything. They're just unknowns that are filled with imagination.

>> No.12492891

>>12489844
Most Kay's novels are like that. There is some magic here and there yet it's not the primary focus of the book.

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based Le Guin

>> No.12494490

>>12489854
Toady's game has lots of magic though. Necromancers, werewolves, vampires, spells, the entire game is devoted to a vengeful blood god that absolutely exists in-game among a whole giant pantheon. Unless you meant a different Bay 12 game, I've never played any others.