History Main / ScienceFantasy

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' has the backdrop of a HighFantasy Otome Game, but it also fetures sci-fi elements such as LostTechnology, {{Mecha}}, an technological battleships that are readily used by nobles. [[spoiler:The reveal of elves essentially being a race of living bioweapons created by humans also counts.]]

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' as the backdrop of a HighFantasy Otome Game, but it also fetures sci-fi elements such as LostTechnology, {{Mecha}}, an technological battleships that are readily used by nobles. [[spoiler:The reveal of elves essentially being a race of living bioweapons created by humans also counts.]]

ScienceFiction and {{Fantasy}} stories can be difficult to tell apart under normal circumstances, as all but the very [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness hardest]] sci-fi introduces some hypothetical technology that one has to take on faith, like FTLTravel or HumanoidAliens. And at the other end of the scale, even HighFantasy works have consistency requirements like MagicAIsMagicA, which can blur the line into SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'' is mostly a straight (if [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness very soft]]) science fiction series, but its third season revealed that the planet Krypton ''also'' had genuine, magical witches, and the main StoryArc of the season revolved around stopping these alien invaders from starting a supernatural apocalypse on Earth.

* ''Webcomic/{{Zap}}'' is mostly [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness soft science fiction]], with [[PsychicPowers psychics]], robots, {{cat girl}}s, [[FasterThanLightTravel FTL]], and other scifi sundries. However, the aliens with ElementalPowers cement it in this category.

* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos is considered an example of DarkFantasy, and it's not [[CrapsackWorld without]] [[CosmicHorrorStory reasons]]: it revolves around a pantheon of [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible gods]], many of whom are worshipped by cultists who wish to summon them through occult means. There are also SpellBooks, most notably the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]], as well as [[EvilSorceror malevolent wizards and witches]], with one god in particular- Yog-Sothoth -often serving as their patron. However, [[OurGodsAreDifferent the gods in question]] [[AlienFairFolk are actually aliens from different parts of the universe]] (such as Yuggoth), and the "magic" is implied to [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens be a case of]] ClarkesThirdLaw.

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse

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* ''VideoGame/ArmoryAndMachine'' initially starts off as a game where you control an AI that builds robots to scout a post-apocalyptic Earth, with most enemies being hostile wildlife. Then, supernatural and magical aspects are present in the Landfill area, where the enemies consist of ElementalEmbodiments that wield the power of [[DishingOutDirt Earth, Dust, and sludge]], which heavily contrasts the robot-filled Laboratory area.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' juxtaposes this trope with a more traditional medieval fantasy setting. Infernia has a more traditional fantasy setting, with very little signs of technology there. Whereas Celestia is more technologically advanced, using {[Magitek}} to create things such as trains, battleships, guns and elevators to name a few.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' can probaly be considered as proper Sci-Fan, as it takes place on the Legacy, a giant ship the size of a continent [[spoiler: that's actually a spaceship that crash landed into the planet.]] Many dungeons have a more sci-fi inspired design, however there aern't many signs of advanced technology, safe from the ones belonging to the Legacy.

** ''VideoGame/TalesofSymphonia'' juxtaposes this trope with a more traditional western fantasy setting. In the 'waning' world of Sylvarant, the technology and overall aesthetic matches a more traditional fantasy setting, with a steam powered ship being considered a marvel of technology. Meanwhile, in the 'prospering' world of Tethe'alla, connected to Sylvarant through a cyclical system of mana, the people of this world enjoy high tech conveniences such as trams, teleporters, and even rollercoasters powered by {{Magitek}}. In addition, the "Desians", a rogue faction of half-elves, possess similar levels of magitek including autonomous robots and personal jet-propelled flying vehicles powered by magic.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' can probaly be considered as proper Sci-Fan, as it takes place on the Legacy, a giant ship the size of a continent [[spoiler: that's actually a spaceship that crash landed into the planet.]] Many dungeons have a more sci-fi inspired design, however there isn't many sings of advanced technology, safe from the ones belonging to the Legacy.

** ''VideoGame/TalesoftheAbyss'' is one of the games in the franchise that most heavily leans into this trope. From mechs and airships to cloning and a fully mechanical city, great feats of science fiction level technology are accomplished by {{Magitek}} devices called 'Fontech'. In addition, the magic system of the setting tends to be portrayed as far more scientifically structured, another hallmark of the trope.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is ''largely'' an UrbanFantasy MagicalGirlWarrior series, but the ''S'' season shifts toward this, due to BigBad Professor Tomoe being a MadScientist using technologically-created Daimons in his quest for magical talismans. The Sailor Guardians were also HumanAliens in [[{{Reincarnation}} their past lives]], and the majority of monsters are extraplanetary aliens of some kind.

* ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'' includes a large amount of cosmology and theology. Much of it appeared to be in the form of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, particularly in the form of the mythical Lords of Kobol and the angelic seraphs from ''War of the Gods''. The original series had a liberal dose of thinly disguised references to the Book of Mormon, the Christian Bible, Judaism, and Islam. The reimagined series settled for Greco-Roman mythology.

* The trope is one of the major themes of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' season 4. The penultimate episode is an epic battle between the forces of science and the supernatural, orchestrated by a BigBad who has a foot in both camps.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': A very clear-cut television example of this. Oh, where to begin... The original series was supposed to be firmly grounded in observable reality -- the Doctor himself identified as a scientist on a number of different occasions, because the series was originally intended to be an EdutainmentShow -- but then the more zany science fiction elements took over. By now, it uses elements from all over SpeculativeFiction, from {{eldritch abomination}}s to Venetian [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] to [[{{Cyborg}} Cybermen]]. (Though this gets subverted, as many of the apparent monsters [[DoingInTheWizard commonly turn out to be just unusual aliens instead]].) And it's all brought together by a {{Time Travel}}ling TARDIS [[RuleOfFunny which looks like an antique police box on the outside]] and apparently goes where and when it is needed. The Eleventh Doctor's era was even explicitly stylised as "a dark fairytale", mixing {{space opera}} worthy elements with a childhood-like imagination and fantasy ethos.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': Starts as a fairly straight time travel show, with the "Leaping" caused by an experimental time machine, neural links, holograms, and computers crunching probablities, but eventually we discover that some cosmic power is directing the protagonist, and maybe also, in separate episodes, meet Satan and a vampire.

%%* The ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' universe contains {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of various literary concepts. Amongst the genres, Science Fiction and Fantasy are twins (and have a little brother, Superhero); at one point Fantasy remarks to her brother that "we're so sympatico that sometimes it's hard to tell where I leave off and you begin."
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': While it started out as straightforward dystopian sci-fi and still leans heavily towards that genre, more and more fantasy elements have been introduced over the years, including psychics, ghosts, demons, zombies, and various forms of magic.

* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' is set against the backdrop of a [[TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar Magic vs. Technology War]], with the winged natives of the planet Landfall bearing high-tech weapons against the horned and magically-inclined denizens of the moon of Wreath. Various trappings of both sci-fi and fantasy also present throughout the series, including a race of robots living in a medieval monarchy, spaceships made out of trees, dragons, sentient animaloid races, and ghosts.
* ''ComicBook/{{Soulfire}}'' takes place in the CyberPunk future of 2211 AD and is about a boy whose destiny is to [[TheMagicComesBack bring magic back into the world]].

* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise has monsters of both magical and scientific origin fighting or teaming up with each other, sometimes within the same movie.

* ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'' by Gene Wolfe is set AfterTheEnd in a SchizoTech world mixing feudalism (and a LowFantasy style of narration) with space travel, androids, laser weapons, etc. One device the protagonist gets a hold of called the Claw of the Conciliator appears to be actually magical. One reviewer comparing the ‘’Book’’ with its followup ''The Urth of the New Sun'' described the former as "science fiction pretending to be fantasy", and the latter as "fantasy pretending to be science fiction".

* ''Literature/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 tetralogy 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".

%%* Creator/OrsonScottCard, in the afterword to an audio recording of ''Literature/EndersGame'', talks about trying to sell a short story based in the world of ''Literature/TheWorthingSaga''. He mentions that one of his rejections said 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". His ''Literature/HomecomingSaga'' series is also a Science Fantasy reworking of ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon.''

* The ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series is usually considered science fiction, but after ''Star Wars'' it might be the best well-known example. The Galaxy has an Emperor and several rival feudal-aristocratic family rule over even complete planets, and there is quasi-magic, Jedi-like women wizard-advisors-priestess-mistresses, and monsters, although the story is otherwise within a fairly straightforward interplanetary science fiction setting.

%%* Everything that happens in ''Literature/TheGiver'' is mostly within the realm of reality, except for the psychic way memories are passed from The Giver to The Receiver. No science is involved, just physical contact and concentration, implying use of some form of magic or supernatural ability.
* ''Literature/GloryRoad'' is a reconstruction of pulp adventure novels with an ordinary modern day man swashbuckling his way across several savage planets inhabited by "dragons" and other such beasties in search of a device that recorded the memories of all the Empresses of the Fifty Universes.

* ''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. Then [[BugWar Aliens]] invade!
* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' has 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 (especially in the last book), the alternate evolutionary paths of life on Earth seen in some worlds like that of the mulefa, etc.), but there are plenty of themes that should connect it to at least LowFantasy (the witches, the fact that Dust is conscious, the armoured polar bears, etc.)

* In ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' series, spaceships, LED lighting, and comic books coexist with necromancy powered by the fundamental energies of death and life, animating skeletons, and summoning ghosts.

* The ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series takes place in our future, AfterTheEnd, and includes robots and mad computers, but also elves and magic. Generally sold as fantasy.

* ''Literature/TerraIgnota'' seems like a pure Science Fiction series on the face of it, but the fact that Bridger can work miracles such as bringing toys to life and possibly even resurrecting the dead, which nobody can explain with science, edges it just that tiny bit into Fantasy territory. Due to sufficiently advanced science, there are also pet unicorns and all kinds of other fantastic beasts.

** Film/Eternals

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is perhaps one of the genre's most glorious (and darkest) examples. It takes place in a (far) future SpaceOpera setting, has [[CoolStarships spaceships]], [[EnergyWeapon lasers]], extraterrestrials, PsychicPowers, HumongousMecha and an army of genetically-engineered SuperSoldier [[SpaceMarine Space Marines]]. However, said spaceships must travel through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell]] to move between stars, the lasers are [[HolyHandGrenade blessed in the name]] of The GodEmperor by the all-pervasive ChurchMilitant, the extraterrestrials are based on classic fantasy races [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]], PsychicPowers are drawn from the same hellscape your spaceship has to dive through and are as likely to get you purged as a heretic witch as get you [[DemonicPossession possessed]], the HumongousMecha are LostTechnology worshiped by the resident CargoCult and the Space Marines are fanatical UsefulNotes/KnightsTemplar. The medieval Gothic aesthetic to the entire place is there to drive home just how regressive and oppressed everything is. John Blanche, the artistic madman who defined the dark gothic aesthetic of both ''Warhammer'' games, describes the setting in the September White Dwarf magazine (the game's 30th anniversary special) thus:

* ''Rogue Adventure'' has [[FantasyKitchenSink multiple types of wizards, fairies, primordial spirits, angels/demons, elves, and]] PettingZooPeople coexisting alongside futuristic robots and a Space Corps. [[NoPlotNoProblem This is all based off their Summon Cards and character classes, by the by.]]

* ''Rogue Adventure'' has multiple types of wizards, fairies, angels/demons, elves, and PettingZooPeople coexisting alongside futuristic robots and a Space Corps. [[NoPlotNoProblem This is all based off their Summon Cards and character classes, by the by.]]

* ''Rogue Adventure'' has fairies, angels/demons, elves, and PettingZooPeople coexisting alongside futuristic robots and a Space Corps. [[NoPlotNoProblem This is all based off their Summon Cards, by the by.]]

* ''Webcomic/UnicornJelly'' started out as just a cute fantasy tale, but then gradually turned into an insane science fiction multiverse with alien physics and TimeTravel.