Well, I couldn't disagree more. You're obviously in Nabokov's team!
Frankestein is sci-fi since it's based on the idea that a scientist, Dr Frankestein, can create life using his knowledge, technology and natural forces. It isn't that different from Caprica.
In many genres the horror just goes along for the ride, as you say. I guess that it's only when a work is first and foremost meant to scare people that we can put it in the horror category stricto-sensu.
alternate magic-filled world in which demons, vampires and gods exist, and that there is but one girl in all the world to fight against them Precisely this hasn't nothing to do with science. The Buffyverse deals with Mythology (hence the onld ones and Glory)and magic not with the way mankind can change the world (or the experience of time)thanks to scientifical skills or interact with alien nations because of their scientifical knowledge. Fictional science (Ted, Maggie Walsh's experiences, the Buffybot) can happen in the Buffyverse but it isn't the stuff the verse is based on, its rules aren't of fictional science.
I'm sorry but I can't forget the word "science" in "science fiction". Words matter.
If we follow your idea of sci-fi every fictional work, all the literature is sci-fi, because they all create a new universe that exists only within a book or a film. It's more obvious when there's supernatural stuff or space organization involved but it's true for any work. Artists are demiurges.
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Frankestein is sci-fi since it's based on the idea that a scientist, Dr Frankestein, can create life using his knowledge, technology and natural forces. It isn't that different from Caprica.
In many genres the horror just goes along for the ride, as you say. I guess that it's only when a work is first and foremost meant to scare people that we can put it in the horror category stricto-sensu.
alternate magic-filled world in which demons, vampires and gods exist, and that there is but one girl in all the world to fight against them Precisely this hasn't nothing to do with science. The Buffyverse deals with Mythology (hence the onld ones and Glory)and magic not with the way mankind can change the world (or the experience of time)thanks to scientifical skills or interact with alien nations because of their scientifical knowledge. Fictional science (Ted, Maggie Walsh's experiences, the Buffybot) can happen in the Buffyverse but it isn't the stuff the verse is based on, its rules aren't of fictional science.
I'm sorry but I can't forget the word "science" in "science fiction". Words matter.
If we follow your idea of sci-fi every fictional work, all the literature is sci-fi, because they all create a new universe that exists only within a book or a film. It's more obvious when there's supernatural stuff or space organization involved but it's true for any work. Artists are demiurges.