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Jay Lake made a really interesting post today about the difference between fantasy and sci-fi (and no, it doesn't state that sf could happen and fantasy couldn't, because who in there right mind would make an argument that silly...). I posted in comments and am vaguely satisfied with what I wrote, so rather than retype it here I thought I'd just post the link, so that you can see what other, more sensible people had to say.

So here it is: Fairy tales of future past