Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

I think that science has advanced to the point, where we no longer consider there to be “unexplored” realms, in science. We haven’t gotten there, yet, but we can see it, from here.

There’s the old adage (maybe it was Carl Sagan that said it?), that any sufficiently advanced science, appears to be magic, but we no longer think of it as “magic.” It’s just a point further down the road. More importantly, we now know about a lot of the “hard limits,” in science.

For myself, I’ve always been more of a fan of fantasy. That’s simply because I prefer the way the narrative is driven.

In Science Fiction, the real protagonist is the speculative science, and the characters are simply decorative elements. The stories are about the “grand idea” science.

In Fantasy, the stories are really about characters, in a fantastical context. The stories are about people.