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RetuenOfDevsman posted...

You do at least have a number of sci-fi subgenres though. Space Fantasy and robotic uprising/utopia are common ones, but so are cyberpunk, monsters/aliens, biohazards, doomsday devices and deep sea exploration.

Thoes are all just variants on "future stuff". Scifi is almost always built on the foundation of current earth cultures and technologies and then picking one thing to change. Fantasy world are completely new worlds so they often use the foundation of "past stuff" as a foundation to build the world on. Criticizing fantasy for having castles and horses is like criticizing scifi for having skyscrapers and cars. And, although there are a million different ways magic has been done, it's one of the core pillars of fantasy. Fantasy without magic is like scifi without sci.