Captain Jack escreveu:
> Also, I'm not sure "Devil In The Dark" is the best example of the point... 
> the only important technology to the plot were A) what the miners were 
> digging for, and B) the silicon cement used to bandage the Horta. If the 
> creature were found in a Welsh coal mine in 1872 and one of the government 
> folks sent in to investigate were a telepath, you could tell the same story. 
> I think if you gave a logical enough explanation for how a silicon based 
> life form could exist (and in Wales, no less) and let the telepathy go as an 
> unexplained-but-taken-for-granted miracle (as it is in Star Trek) it would 
> be still be science fiction. No gadgets, but still scientific. 

That's why many advocate for "speculative fiction" rather than scifi. 
Also copes with pure fantasy works...

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