No, you have to create a universe that operates differently on some scientific issue. Thus xenobiology - demons, etc., a past (what you claim as mythology) which was completely different than our own but was considered real, and the use of magic.
When I first started writing a response to you I was going to agree that Buffy was not Sci-Fi. I had a couple of paragraphs in support of your position written out. But then I was watching "Helpless" as I wrote. And even in that episode I couldn't see the separation with Sci-Fi. ...
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No, you have to create a universe that operates differently on some scientific issue. Thus xenobiology - demons, etc., a past (what you claim as mythology) which was completely different than our own but was considered real, and the use of magic.
When I first started writing a response to you I was going to agree that Buffy was not Sci-Fi. I had a couple of paragraphs in support of your position written out. But then I was watching "Helpless" as I wrote. And even in that episode I couldn't see the separation with Sci-Fi.
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