[quote=@VitaVitaAR]
The thing with that is to follow it you'd be going do pure sci-fi and it'd probably be pretty soft sci-fi.

If we're doing magic, it's going to be magic, since the consensus doesn't appear to be pure and very soft sci-fi.
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Why couldn't it be magic just because you need gadgets to use it? Is Harry Potter sci-fi because they need to use wands in order to perform magic? Maybe our bodies aren't really suited to this fantastical force, but science has given us the chance to wield it (which could also add a dilemma to the plot - are we [i]meant[/i] to use it?). Magic is magic is magic, similar but different in every story that has ever used it, involving technology or not.

EDIT: What does "soft" sci-fi even mean?