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* TerryPratchett's ''{{Bromeliad}}'' Trilogy is a good example of genre blending. All three books are written as a Borrowers/Littles sort of "tiny people living undetectably amongst us" story, except that it is revealed that the Nomes are in fact aliens marooned on Earth who have devolved somewhat, who only realize what they are when "The Thing", a mysterious box that one of the characters carries, is in fact a sentient computer.
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* TerryPratchett's ''{{Bromeliad}}'' Trilogy Creator/TerryPratchett's NomesTrilogy is a good example of genre blending. All three books are written as a Borrowers/Littles sort of "tiny people living undetectably amongst us" story, except that it is revealed that the Nomes are in fact aliens marooned on Earth who have devolved somewhat, who only realize what they are when "The Thing", a mysterious box that one of the characters carries, is in fact a sentient computer.
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Subtrope of SpeculativeFiction, under which all {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction falls. Compare UrbanFantasy, GaslampFantasy, SpaceOpera, and PlanetaryRomance. Contrast HowUnscientific, where the mix of genres seems out of place.
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Subtrope of SpeculativeFiction, under which all {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction falls. Compare UrbanFantasy, GaslampFantasy, SpaceOpera, and PlanetaryRomance. Contrast HowUnscientific, where the mix of genres seems out of place.
place. FantasyKitchenSink is the version of this trope without science fiction, SciFiKitchenSink is the version without fantasy.
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Subtrope of SpeculativeFiction, under which all {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction falls. Compare UrbanFantasy, GaslampFantasy, SpaceOpera, and PlanetaryRomance. Contrast HowUnscientific, where the mix of genres seems out of place. FantasyKitchenSink is the version of this trope without science fiction, SciFiKitchenSink is the version without fantasy.
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Subtrope of SpeculativeFiction, under which all {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction falls. Compare UrbanFantasy, GaslampFantasy, SpaceOpera, and PlanetaryRomance. Contrast HowUnscientific, where the mix of genres seems out of place. FantasyKitchenSink is the version of this trope without science fiction, SciFiKitchenSink is the version without fantasy.
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What can be a better sign of a Science Fantasy setting than there being both aliens confused for demons and actual supernatural beings of evil around?
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* The ''MightAndMagic'' series (which includes the first four ''HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games) takes place in fantasy worlds but with SF-elements (mostly involving LostTechnology.) Not many people who haven't played ''[=M&M6=]'' knows that the Kreegan/Inferno town of ''Heroes 3'' is in fact populated not by demons but by hive-minded aliens. For those that only know the ''[=HoM&M=]'' series: one of the third game's expansion packs was supposed to add a cybernetic army but they changed their mind.
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* The ''MightAndMagic'' series (which includes the first four ''HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games) takes place in fantasy worlds but with SF-elements (mostly involving LostTechnology.) Not many people who haven't played ''[=M&M6=]'' knows that the Kreegan/Inferno town of ''Heroes 3'' is in fact populated not by demons but by hive-minded aliens. aliens (except for when the Inferno town is used to represent the ''non''-Kreegan demons that are also around in the setting). For those that only know the ''[=HoM&M=]'' series: one of the third game's expansion packs was supposed to add a cybernetic army but they changed their mind.mind after receiving [[FanDumb threats of boycotting the series and death threats from 'fans' angry at the intrusion of science fiction into their fantasy setting]].
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* In ''{{Bionicle}}'', pretty much everyone is a [[AmbiguousRobot mostly machine cyborg]], they all live inside a [[spoiler:giant robot]] made of AppliedPhlebotinum , and they sport some pretty sweet tech, but the most common way for the [[{{Hobbits}} powerless Matoran]] to defend themselves are with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome frisbees that can freeze, shrink, or teleport whatever they touch]], and the main heroes, Toa, [[ElementalPowers control the elements]] with no explanation other than "elemental energy" and wear [[CoolMask magic masks]] that have an ever growing list of options.
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* In ''{{Bionicle}}'', pretty much everyone is a [[AmbiguousRobot mostly machine cyborg]], they all live inside a [[spoiler:giant robot]] made of AppliedPhlebotinum , AppliedPhlebotinum, and they sport some pretty sweet tech, but the most common way for the [[{{Hobbits}} powerless Matoran]] to defend themselves are with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome frisbees that can freeze, shrink, or teleport whatever they touch]], and the main heroes, Toa, [[ElementalPowers control the elements]] with no explanation other than "elemental energy" and wear [[CoolMask magic masks]] that have an ever growing list of options.
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*** The origin of the Makuta may be an even better example. They come from a pool of slime containing their unborn, bodiless spirits -- sounds fantasy enough, right? But those "spirits" are really preprogrammed artificial intelligence, and the liquid is just a strange data storage device.
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* ''ChronoTrigger'': An apocalyptic future with destroyed [[DomedHometown domed cities]] caused by a CosmicHorror, combined with a medieval [[SwordAndSorceror sword-and-spell]] setting in the past. And it's all connected by TimeTravel.
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* ''ChronoTrigger'': ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': An apocalyptic future with destroyed [[DomedHometown domed cities]] caused by a CosmicHorror, combined with a medieval [[SwordAndSorceror sword-and-spell]] setting in the past. And it's all connected by TimeTravel.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has goblins, futuristic robots, princesses, wizards, hologram projectors, magic, and mini-anti-gravity chambers. All in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
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* Mary Gentle's ''{{Literature/Grunts}}'' starts out as a stereotypical fantasy world told from the point of view of a tribe of Orcs. There's a Last Battle, a Dark Lord, a Nameless Necromancer, halfling thieves, {{Mordor The Dark Lands}}, and all the things you'd normally expect to find in a HighFantasy world. Then the orcs get their hands on modern firearms (from our universe via a magic portal). Cue an elephant made to fly with anti-gravity and a cloaking stealth dragon. [[ItGotWorse Then]] [[BugWar Aliens]] invade!
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* Mary Gentle's ''{{Literature/Grunts}}'' starts out as a stereotypical fantasy world told from the point of view of a tribe of Orcs. There's a Last Battle, a Dark Lord, a Nameless Necromancer, halfling thieves, {{Mordor [[{{Mordor}} The Dark Lands}}, Lands]], and all the things you'd normally expect to find in a HighFantasy world. Then the orcs get their hands on modern firearms (from our universe via a magic portal). Cue an elephant made to fly with anti-gravity and a cloaking stealth dragon. [[ItGotWorse Then]] [[BugWar Aliens]] invade!
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* Mary Gentle's ''{{Grunts}}'' starts out as a stereotypical fantasy world told from the point of view of a tribe of Orcs. Then they get guns. Then Aliens invade!
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* Mary Gentle's ''{{Grunts}}'' ''{{Literature/Grunts}}'' starts out as a stereotypical fantasy world told from the point of view of a tribe of Orcs. There's a Last Battle, a Dark Lord, a Nameless Necromancer, halfling thieves, {{Mordor The Dark Lands}}, and all the things you'd normally expect to find in a HighFantasy world. Then they the orcs get guns. Then Aliens their hands on modern firearms (from our universe via a magic portal). Cue an elephant made to fly with anti-gravity and a cloaking stealth dragon. [[ItGotWorse Then]] [[BugWar Aliens]] invade!
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* Starting around the sixth game in the series, the ''{{Wizardry}}'' games dove head-first into combining fantasy and sci-fi, where spells, magical creatures, and arcane artifacts are found hand-in-hand with spacefaring aliens, starships, and advanced energy weapons.
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* ''PhantasyStar'', though as the series progressed, it more thoroughly embraced the sci-fi side of things.
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* WebOriginal/LimyaaelsFantasyRants has tips for writing [[http://limyaael.livejournal.com/577404.html science fiction/fantasy hybrids]].
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* In the ''YoungWizards'' series the magic used by the wizards is definitely supernatural, but magic can be used to travel to alien worlds which have very advanced technology, the space aliens can ''also'' be wizards, and Kit's non-wizard older sister bought a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser gun]] which she saw on an alien cable-channel's infomercial. To say nothing of Dairine, whose GreatBigBookOfEverything is a computer, creating a race of sentient robots ''who can'' also ''be wizards.'' The spells are described as being a combination of science and [[IKnowYourTrueName truename magic]]. Hence, the characters can do things like making a laser or particle accelerator out of magic.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': A blue centaur gives a bunch of kids the ability to transform into animals so they can fight monsters. Could have been a fantasy book, but it just so happens the "centaur" is an alien, and the morphing powers have perfectly scientific explanations (alters your DNA etc.)
* OrsonScottCard, in the afterword to an audio recording of ''EndersGame'', talks about trying to sell a short story based in the world of ''The Worthing Saga''. He mentions that one of his rejections mentioned that it was a good story, but it wasn't right for the magazine, as it was Fantasy rather than Science Fiction. He said that the reason it was considered Fantasy was because none of the scientific backdrop was present in the story. In the end, he concluded that the only difference between Fantasy and Science Fiction is that "Fantasy has trees, SciFi has rivets."
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': A blue centaur gives a bunch of kids the ability to transform into animals so they can fight monsters. Could have been a fantasy book, but it just so happens the "centaur" is an alien, and the morphing powers have perfectly scientific explanations (alters your DNA etc.)
* OrsonScottCard, in the afterword to an audio recording of ''EndersGame'', talks about trying to sell a short story based in the world of ''The Worthing Saga''. He mentions that one of his rejections mentioned that it was a good story, but it wasn't right for the magazine, as it was Fantasy rather than Science Fiction. He said that the reason it was considered Fantasy was because none of the scientific backdrop was present in the story. In the end, he concluded that the only difference between Fantasy and Science Fiction is that "Fantasy has trees, SciFi has rivets."
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Subtrope of SpeculativeFiction, under which all {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction falls. Compare UrbanFantasy, GaslampFantasy, SpaceOpera, and PlanetaryRomance. Contrast HowUnscientific, where the mix of genres seems out of place. FantasyKitchenSink is the version of this trope without science fiction.
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* ''FengShui'' takes place in a universe where robot monkeys coexist with demonic creatures.
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* ''FengShui'' ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' takes place in a universe where robot monkeys coexist with sorcerers and demonic creatures.
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* ''AsurasWrath'' basically IS this trope with a [[HinduMythology Hindu]] and [[{{Buddism}} Buddhist]] twist.
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* The ''MegamiTensei'' meta-series is made of ScienceFantasy. The original novels that started it all presented summoning spells written in computer code so that computers could conjure demons - and those demons able to inhabit the computers into which they were summoned. Some games are more or less so than others - ''ShinMegamiTensei'' 1, 2, and ''StrangeJourney'' are steeped in this genre, as are the ''DevilSurvivor'' games and the first two ''Devil Summoner'' games (and parts of the ''Raidou Kuzunoha'' ones flirt with it). ''{{Persona 1}}'' and ''{{Persona 3}}'' are much more so than 2 or 4. Meanwhile, ''DigitalDevilSaga'' is, well... just look at the name.
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- \'\'The Conversion Bureau\'\', is set twenty minutes in the future with A.I. handling most menial tasks, holograms everywhere, cybernetic upgrades readily available, and the early phases of space colonization. With the emergence of Equestria there are also spell casting unicorns, weather controlling pegasi, monsters from across many mythologies, and two physical gods of the moon and sun.
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- \'\'The Conversion Bureau\'\', is set twenty minutes in the future with A.I. handling most menial tasks, holograms everywhere, cybernetic upgrades readily available, and the early phases of space colonization. With the emergence of [[My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic Equestria]] there are also spell casting unicorns, weather controlling pegasi, monsters from across many mythologies, and two physical gods of the moon and sun.
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* Julian May's ''Pliocene Exile/Galactic Milieu'' books feature aliens and spaceships, but also planet-shaking psychic powers, elves and goblins. Generally sold as Sci-Fi.
** In all fairness, the elves and goblins are clearly referred to as alien races throughout the series.
* Terry Brooks's ''{{Shannara}}'' series takes place in our future, AfterTheEnd, and includes robots and mad computers, but also elves and magic. Generally sold as fantasy.
* The ''{{Dragaera}}'' books look at first to be typical DungeonPunk, with magic, elves (OK, "Dragaerans"), swordfights, et cetera. However, careful inspection indicates science-fictional underpinnings: humans ("Easterners") are from "small invisible lights" (meaning the stars, invisible in the Empire because of the enclouding), genetics and gene manipulation are well-understood, and some characters view abstract concepts like "the soul" as matters of engineering, not religion. Let's not even get ''started'' on the gods and the nature of magic...
* Randall Garrett's ''Literature/LordDarcy'' stories are a ''SherlockHolmes''-style mystery series set in an alternate history with very rule-based magic. While technology (and politics) has barely equaled the gaslight-era by the 1970s, magic has effectively reached a bit higher than modern day technology. And magic isn't just useful, it's carefully codified, requiring as much study, repeatability and dedication (not to mention certification, licensing and taxes) as modern engineering or medicine. Though now commonly billed as fantasy, most of the stories originally saw the light of day in either ''Analog Science Fiction'' or ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''.
** Randall Garrett once stated that Lord Darcy’s world and ours shared the same laws of physics. He defined the “magic” of Darcy’s world as a form of psionics, which he thought of as a real-world phenomenon.
* GeneWolfe's ''BookOfTheNewSun'' series is set AfterTheEnd in a SchizoTech world mixing feudalism (and a LowFantasy style of narration) with space travel, androids, laser weapons, etc. However, there is a device the protagonist gets a hold of called the Claw of the Conciliator which appears to be magical with no scientific explanation. Generally sold as science fiction.
** One reviewer comparing the tetraology with the fifth book, ''The Urth of the New Sun'' described the first four books as "science fiction pretending to be fantasy", and the fifth as "fantasy pretending to be science fiction".
* TerryPratchett's ''{{Bromeliad}}'' Trilogy is a good example of genre blending. All three books are written as a Borrowers/Littles sort of "tiny people living undetectably amongst us" story, except that it is revealed that the Nomes are in fact aliens marooned on Earth who have devolved somewhat, who only realize what they are when "The Thing", a mysterious box that one of the characters carries, is in fact a sentient computer.
* NeilGaiman and Micheal Reaves' book ''{{Interworld}}'' features a multiverse organized as an arc, with the worlds on one side being ones where magic is in control, and worlds on the other where science is the dominant paradigm. Each end is ruled by a multiplanar empire, one representing Magic and one representing Science, which are both trying to take over the entire multiverse. There is a third organization, made up of different versions of the main character, who fight both sides and have the ability to travel freely between worlds, who move about the center of the arc.
* In a similar vein, RogerZelazny's novel ''Jack of Shadows'' takes place on a planet which is half-magic (dark side), and half technological (sunlit side). The titular antihero moves effortlessly between both.
* A lot of Jack Chalker's novels and series mixed up the two, often with SufficientlyAdvancedAlien (or sometimes human) tech providing a backdrop in which magical-like effects (sometimes called magic by the user who didn't understand it) were possible. The WellWorld series is an example of the alien version, while the ''Flux and Anchor'' series had the AppliedPhlebotinum created by humans.
** His ''Four Lords of the Diamond'' series features four planets seeded with a sort of alien parasite that provides people with strange powers, each unique to one of the four planets. The third book in particular involves a planet where people can effectively perform magic, and it's even called magic in the book.
* Mary Gentle's ''{{Grunts}}'' starts out as a stereotypical fantasy world told from the point of view of a tribe of Orcs. Then they get guns. Then Aliens invade!
* ''HisDarkMaterials'' should fit in this. There's plenty of things that should go well with science fiction (the fact that Dust is a particle, the numerous technologies that look as if they came from various degrees of civilization, from SteamPunk worlds to things akin to those you'd see on hard science fiction (specially in the last book), the alternate evolutionary paths of life on Earth seen in some worlds like that of the mulefa, etc.), but there's plenty of themes that should connect it to at least LowFantasy (the witches, the fact Dust is conscious, the armoured polar bears, etc.)
** In all fairness, the elves and goblins are clearly referred to as alien races throughout the series.
* Terry Brooks's ''{{Shannara}}'' series takes place in our future, AfterTheEnd, and includes robots and mad computers, but also elves and magic. Generally sold as fantasy.
* The ''{{Dragaera}}'' books look at first to be typical DungeonPunk, with magic, elves (OK, "Dragaerans"), swordfights, et cetera. However, careful inspection indicates science-fictional underpinnings: humans ("Easterners") are from "small invisible lights" (meaning the stars, invisible in the Empire because of the enclouding), genetics and gene manipulation are well-understood, and some characters view abstract concepts like "the soul" as matters of engineering, not religion. Let's not even get ''started'' on the gods and the nature of magic...
* Randall Garrett's ''Literature/LordDarcy'' stories are a ''SherlockHolmes''-style mystery series set in an alternate history with very rule-based magic. While technology (and politics) has barely equaled the gaslight-era by the 1970s, magic has effectively reached a bit higher than modern day technology. And magic isn't just useful, it's carefully codified, requiring as much study, repeatability and dedication (not to mention certification, licensing and taxes) as modern engineering or medicine. Though now commonly billed as fantasy, most of the stories originally saw the light of day in either ''Analog Science Fiction'' or ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''.
** Randall Garrett once stated that Lord Darcy’s world and ours shared the same laws of physics. He defined the “magic” of Darcy’s world as a form of psionics, which he thought of as a real-world phenomenon.
* GeneWolfe's ''BookOfTheNewSun'' series is set AfterTheEnd in a SchizoTech world mixing feudalism (and a LowFantasy style of narration) with space travel, androids, laser weapons, etc. However, there is a device the protagonist gets a hold of called the Claw of the Conciliator which appears to be magical with no scientific explanation. Generally sold as science fiction.
** One reviewer comparing the tetraology with the fifth book, ''The Urth of the New Sun'' described the first four books as "science fiction pretending to be fantasy", and the fifth as "fantasy pretending to be science fiction".
* TerryPratchett's ''{{Bromeliad}}'' Trilogy is a good example of genre blending. All three books are written as a Borrowers/Littles sort of "tiny people living undetectably amongst us" story, except that it is revealed that the Nomes are in fact aliens marooned on Earth who have devolved somewhat, who only realize what they are when "The Thing", a mysterious box that one of the characters carries, is in fact a sentient computer.
* NeilGaiman and Micheal Reaves' book ''{{Interworld}}'' features a multiverse organized as an arc, with the worlds on one side being ones where magic is in control, and worlds on the other where science is the dominant paradigm. Each end is ruled by a multiplanar empire, one representing Magic and one representing Science, which are both trying to take over the entire multiverse. There is a third organization, made up of different versions of the main character, who fight both sides and have the ability to travel freely between worlds, who move about the center of the arc.
* In a similar vein, RogerZelazny's novel ''Jack of Shadows'' takes place on a planet which is half-magic (dark side), and half technological (sunlit side). The titular antihero moves effortlessly between both.
* A lot of Jack Chalker's novels and series mixed up the two, often with SufficientlyAdvancedAlien (or sometimes human) tech providing a backdrop in which magical-like effects (sometimes called magic by the user who didn't understand it) were possible. The WellWorld series is an example of the alien version, while the ''Flux and Anchor'' series had the AppliedPhlebotinum created by humans.
** His ''Four Lords of the Diamond'' series features four planets seeded with a sort of alien parasite that provides people with strange powers, each unique to one of the four planets. The third book in particular involves a planet where people can effectively perform magic, and it's even called magic in the book.
* Mary Gentle's ''{{Grunts}}'' starts out as a stereotypical fantasy world told from the point of view of a tribe of Orcs. Then they get guns. Then Aliens invade!
* ''HisDarkMaterials'' should fit in this. There's plenty of things that should go well with science fiction (the fact that Dust is a particle, the numerous technologies that look as if they came from various degrees of civilization, from SteamPunk worlds to things akin to those you'd see on hard science fiction (specially in the last book), the alternate evolutionary paths of life on Earth seen in some worlds like that of the mulefa, etc.), but there's plenty of themes that should connect it to at least LowFantasy (the witches, the fact Dust is conscious, the armoured polar bears, etc.)
