History Main / ScienceFantasy

** ''Creatures of Light and Darkness'', often considered a companion novel to ''Lord of Light'', featured ''actual'' Egyptian Gods in a StandardSciFiSetting.

* 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.

* ''{{Albion}}'', a game where a spaceship in the future lands on a world with magic instead of tec
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* ''{{Albion}}'', a game where a spaceship in the future lands on a world with magic instead of tec

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** 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.

* The universe of the tabletop roleplaying game ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]''. You know you're in for a case of ScienceFantasy when your [[TheVerse verse]] is a CrossoverCosmology {{multiverse}} containing [[AllTheMyriadWays every possible type of universe]], but that's just the beginning. Described as “cosmic fantasy”, ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' is intended to have all the feeling of a fantasy setting, the only thing that makes it ''not'' explicitly fantasy is that it just so happens to have sci-fi “props” and window dressing. To quote directly from the book, “''Chaos'' is an over-the-top, epic cosmic fantasy. It's got dragons and spaceships, cyborgs and wizards, knights, aliens, superheroes, gods, demons, time travel, energy weapons, parallel universes, romance, quests, wars, duels, ancient conspiracies, buried treasures and lost artifacts, distant planets, weird creatures, corrupt politicians…and a guy named [[ArchangelMichael Mike]].”

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* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' blends fantasy and sci-fi elements, with a world seemingly in MedievalStasis where magic and TronLines abound. Then adds RuinsOfTheModernAge [[spoiler: and the Skid into the mix and the existences of Xeferis, and Natalie, who're [[EmpathicWeapon dragoons]] that link with their masters. And the Peacemakers, who are a powerful race of alien overlords who can enslave the minds of all who gaze upon them. To say nothing of their true power!]]

* ''LightNovel/ToAruMajutsuNoIndex''

** 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.

* The universe of the tabletop roleplaying game ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]''. You know you're in for a case of ScienceFantasy when your [[TheVerse verse]] is a CrossoverCosmology {{multiverse}} containing [[AllTheMyriadWays every possible type of universe]], but that's just the beginning. Described as “cosmic fantasy”, ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' is intended to have all the feeling of a fantasy setting, the only thing that makes it ''not'' explicitly fantasy is that it just so happens to have sci-fi “props” and window dressing. To quote directly from the book, “''Chaos'' is an over-the-top, epic cosmic fantasy. It's got dragons and spaceships, cyborgs and wizards, knights, aliens, superheroes, gods, demons, time travel, energy weapons, parallel universes, romance, quests, wars, duels, ancient conspiracies, buried treasures and lost artifacts, distant planets, weird creatures, corrupt politicians…and a guy named [[ArchangelMichael Mike]].”

* ''{{Albion}}'', a game where a spaceship in the future lands on a world with magic instead of technology. A lot of the time is spent in primarily fantastic or scifistic settings, but they eventually mix, and both elements are present at least a little most of the time.
* ''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.
* ''{{Touhou}}'': Stupid fairy vs. HumongousMecha. ShrineMaiden vs. tanks. [[spoiler:ShrineMaiden wins.]] Magical aliens vs. Apollo 13. Nuclear reactor powered by a magical crow that ate a dead deity. Laser-blasting witch whose ally is a kappa with stealth suit. The list goes on...
* The ''KingdomHearts'' series has magic, souls ("hearts"), fantastic creatures, and a prophecy involving a hero of destiny... alongside spaceships armed with lasers, {{Mad Scientist}}s, advanced robots, and {{Magical Computer}}s including an InsideAComputerSystem level. The spaceships with lasers are firmly on the magic side of it. They are made from size-changing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gummi blocks]] that broke off of the sky. On your second visit to the InsideAComputerSystem world you have to bring a computer program modified by [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone Merlin's magic]] to {{Tron}} so that he can do battle with the MCP.
* 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 (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 after receiving [[FanDumb threats of boycotting the series and death threats from 'fans' angry at the intrusion of science fiction into their fantasy setting]].
* Similarly, the primarily high fantasy ''{{Ultima}}'' and ''{{Heretic}}''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'' series briefly skirted with SF on a number of occasions, resulting in the occasional raygun, spaceship, time machine, or [[spoiler:demonic]] supercomputer.
* The ''GuiltyGear'' series of games, set in a future where a new, unlimited source of power has been discovered... called "Magic." Humanoid robots and artificially created killing machines coexist with people who can summon the power of the elements and fight with melee weapons (admittedly, melee weapons which can spit fire and lightning).
* The Amiga classic ShadowOfTheBeast is set in a Roger Dean-inspired fantasy world called Karamoon, which features sword-wielding orcs, medieval architecture, goblins, morningstars, mechanical claws, jetpacks, and (in the third game) robots.
* For a game-series with a fundamentally magic premise (books that act as portals, scribed in an ancient arcane language), the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' games incorporate an awful lot of sci-fi trappings: transport pods, electronic viewers, spaceships, submarines, giant mechanical engines, alien ecologies, orbital observatories, etc.
* Alongside it's many [[StandardFantasySetting standard fantasy elements]] ''TheElderScrolls'' also feature spaceships used by gods; time traveling, terminatorish robots with laser weapons; and astronauts (the mananauts and Sunbirds of Alinor), and in extension: more spaceships. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
** Also, the realms of Aeterius and Oblivion were originally presented as simply this world's equivalent of Heaven and Hell. Then ''The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'' featured an observatory where the realms of Oblivion appeared as planets orbiting Nirn (the mortal world) and the gods as even more distant planets at the edge of a solar system. So, the Oblivion Gates? Those may or may not be [[StarGate stargates]] in disguise.
* ''The Unholy War'' was a strategy game that took this to an extreme, with an army of fantasy creatures fighting an army of science fiction characters.
* In the ''TheLongestJourney'' series, magic and technology once coexisted. Past misues of the two brought the PowersThatBe to separate the two into Stark (technology, "our" world) and Arcadia (magic/medieval world). Attempts to alter this balance are what drives the plot.
* The ''StarOcean'' series typically takes characters from a science fiction setting, and then plunges them deep into fantasy, while ever hinting at science fiction overtones throughout the stories.
* Starting around the sixth game in the series, the ''VideoGame/{{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.
** ''Wizardry VII'' was the first of the series to embrace this trope-while the party is firmly grounded in fantasy, and the world seems to be with the full range of usual fantasy creatures and items, there's also the fact that the party arrived on the world by a starship, the BigBad has a robotic army, two more alien races are engaged in a power struggle over the planet from their landing zones, and one of the native races travels around in rocket-powered aircraft.
** ''Wizardry 8'' takes this to an even more extreme bent, where powerful magic and advanced technology happily coexist-you'll see sophisticated artificial intelligences talking happily with wizards, flamethrowers and rocket launchers wielded by elves, and an alien airbase guarded by potent technological and magical defenses.
* ''{{Pokemon}}'' takes place in a ConstructedWorld full of magical creatures, [[PatchworkMap impossible geography]], and polytheistic gods…and computers and electric power plants and psychic powers and spaceships.
* ''{{Warcraft}}'' 'verse's technology is roughly at pre-industrial level, where guns are getting common, but swords and bows are still viable. However, the range of technology available is quite large. [[RockBeatsLaser Rock axes]] can down [[{{Magitek}} demonic]] HumongousMecha, and {{Death Ray}}s can be used against ancient evil gods. And the dimension-hopping giants that ride around in spaceships.
* ''SepterraCore'' wandered back and forth between the two, blending such elements as SteamPunk technology, magic fueled by the planet itself, genetic engineering and a pantheon of gods.
* The ''ArTonelico'' series features girls who [[MagicMusic control magical powers with their songs]] and goddesses who control the giant towers that humanity has been forced to live in after a disaster destroyed the world's land. The [[AllThereInTheManual backstory of the series]] reveals that this disaster was caused by the technology of a highly advanced civilization. The towers themselves were built by these civilizations. The villain in the first game invades the tower's systems with viruses that can take physical form and possess many of the tower's robot guardians. The magic wielding girls themselves are actually an [[ArtificialHuman artificial race]] designed to use magical powers based on the intricate principles of "wave science."
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' features an invasion by demons from hell ... thwarted by a ''space marine'' on ''UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}'' with a ''plasma rifle.''
** Demons with cybernetic implants. One of them is called Cyberdemon.
* The ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' universe also combines elements of both science-fiction (cyborgs, advanced weaponry, parallel dimensions, spaceships) and fantasy (magic, dragons, gods, demons).
* ''ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' is a mixture of more specific genres: HighFantasy and SteamPunk. The overarching story is fantasy epic, set in a more dystopian land that includes race and class conflict and the growing pains of an industrializing society as themes. Magic vs. technology is less a war than an ideological clash that can at least find common ground in its goals if not its practical methods.
* ''{{Metro 2033}}'' takes place in a fairly standard GrimDark version of AfterTheEnd, with hostile mutants, scattered human survivors, and a climax that involves using pre-cataclysmic weapons. There are also enough murderous ghosts for one of the characters to have a theory on them (Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory were ''also'' atomized), including a bona fide AfterlifeExpress.
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' takes place on a FloatingContinent, which is inhabited by fantastic creatures such as [[FunnyAnimal bunny-shaped Mimigas]], ([[NonHumanUndead undead]]) [[SandIsWater sand-dwelling crocodiles]] or humanoid cockroaches, ruled over by an old witch who's responsible for an abomination that keeps the island afloat from inside a chamber protected with terminals and water control. There's also an incubator corridor that keeps dragon eggs and RidiculouslyHumanRobots.
* 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 ''VideoGame/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.
* ''AsurasWrath'' IS this trope with a [[HinduMythology Hindu]] and [[{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] twist.
* ''PhantasyStar'', though as the series progressed, it more thoroughly embraced the sci-fi side of things.
* ''VideoGame/CosmicFantasy''.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is {{steampunk}} combined with fantasy. Most of the weird stuff can be explained by technology, but not everything. The magic includes stuff like the river Dyne (which is an apparently natural spring the waters of which make the drinker a mad genius, though in most cases it's instantly lethal), Geisterdamen (ghost-like beings), Frankenstein-esque reanimated corpses, Jaegermonsters (non-human beings with superhuman strength and [[LongLived lifespans]] who are former humans who drank the [[SuperSerum "Jaegerdraught"]]), multiple cases of BrainUploading, the [[GeniusLoci castle Heterodyne]]'s seemingly telekinetic ability to move chunks of itself...
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. There are robots and other advanced tech in the Court, while the Gillitie Wood is full of magic-users (including PhysicalGod Coyote). Transformation to/from forest creatures is an accepted part of the universe, and the Court has students and teachers skilled in "etheric sciences".
* ''QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' is a sequel to ''TalesOfTheQuestor'' that takes place 700 years later in the interstellar age. At that point most Racconnans rely on [[{{Magitek}} technology]] for most of their Lux use.
* ''TheDragonDoctors'' make heavy use of magic, but always use it rationally and scientifically (their leader even calls herself a "Magical Scientist"). LegoGenetics are referenced at one point as being only possible with the use of magic to treat traits as conceptual objects.
* WebComic/MegaTokyo has both light fantasy elements (mostly {{MagicalGirl}}s) and soft sci-fi (stuff related to the TPCD mostly). A DarkMagicalGirl is best friends with a RobotGirl and said DMG used to control people's emotions through an MMORPG.
* Thanks to its PlanetEris and FantasyKitchenSink setting, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is filled with this trope. Santa Claus is infected with alien DNA. Witches and [[TalkingAnimal Talking Animals]] lead teams of SpacePirates. A ray gun is used to blast a demon back in time. A centuries old sorcerer is President of the United States ''[[AC:[[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!!!]]]]''
* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' has both magic and futuristic technology, and combinations of the two.
* The ''Crushed'' subseries of ''{{Supermegatopia}}'' is technically [[spoiler: the result of a space explorer using SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology to make]] a medieval fantasy world. This later gets ruined by [[spoiler: the Ragnaracoon]], and mixed into an unapologetic mishmash of high technology and high fantasy called Meshworld.
* ''Webcomic/BrokenSpace'' ([[http://brokenspacecomic.com site]]) features aliens, demons, clockwork, [[SteamPunk steam-power]], magicians, guns, swords, strange Magitek weapons, and divinely powered starships.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has genetically altered super-mutant assassins, aliens, mad scientists and many magic users, several of whom are main characters. Oh yeah, and one of the magic users can create a fairy version of herself, and Tedd's been hacking a {{Magitek}} [[GenderBender transformation ray gun]] since 2002.
* ''LastRes0rt'' is set several thousand years into the future, contains nanotechnology, flying robots, and a galactic society... and also contains lots of creatures that run off of soul-based magic, including vampires, djinn, and zombies. [[FurryComic Also, furries.]] It's labeled {{Cyberpunk}} -- but it's about as Cyberpunk as, say, TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}.
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* Blog/LimyaaelsFantasyRants has tips for writing [[http://limyaael.livejournal.com/577404.html science fiction/fantasy hybrids]].
* Animated UrbanFantasy web series ''BrokenSaints'' uses a lot of the technology from (probably) TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, and just labeled "state-of-the-art" in-story. However, it also includes [[TheEmpath Shandala]]'s powers of healing and... [[BewareTheNiceOnes not-so-healing...]], and Kamimura's ability to SoulJar his pupil, holding a [[SoulFragment fragment]] of said pupil's consciousness within his own mind. While the first ability [[spoiler: is revealed to be part of her genetic design]] (very sci-fi), they are both firmly in the fantasy realm.
* While most of ''ChaosFighters'' novels are fantasy with minor science fiction elements inserted in the magic system, ''Chaos Fighters II'' and ''Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors'' are science fiction with significant fantasy style battles.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' has space travel, futuristic vehicles and the like, but also features a magic sword used by the hero and an undead SorcerousOverlord as the main villain.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has laser weapons, robots, biotechnology along with pseudo-gods, fairies and ghosts (Oberon's children) as well as various other mythological creatures.
* TheVentureBros had a MagicVersusScience contest between Dr. Venture and Dr. Orpheus (a parody of Dr. Strange), reaching its climax as Orpheus produces fire from his hands. Dr. Venture's scientific one-up? A lighter.
* ''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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* In ''{{Bionicle}}'', 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.
** Energized Protodermis, the universe's most powerful substance that can either transform or destroy whatever it touches. What you get is based on [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny.]] Oh, and it's sentient.
** The [[BigBad Makuta]], a race designed to be genetic engineers, but do so by ''mixing potions in a cauldron.''
*** The origin of the Makuta. 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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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' tends to mix the two so thoroughly that it can make one dizzy. It prologue starts with two warring [[OurTitansAreDifferent titans]] whose dead bodies make up the entire world, then transitions to advanced humans fighting a war against relentless killer robots. The robots can only be stopped by a [[CoolSword legendary ancient sword called the Monado]], which somewhat resembles a [[LaserBlade light-saber]]. Then the Monado starts granting the protagonist visions of the future, but that turns out to have a reasonable scientific explanation. Then it turns out that [[spoiler:the Monado is the manifestation of an evil god]]. And by the end of the game, [[spoiler:you're fighting [[spoiler:[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant robot ghosts]] [[MindScrew in outer space]]]].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' seemed to be straight UrbanFantasy at first, what with the [[VancianMagic mages]] and {{golem}}s and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. Then [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Chachamaru]] came in. And the {{Mad Scientist}}s. And the [[{{Magitek}} Magic Internet]]. And the magical PlayfulHacker vs TheCracker face-off in cyberspace. And the {{Mar|s}}tian {{Time Travel}}ler from the future with HumongousMecha and {{Mecha-Mooks}}. And most recently, it seems that [[spoiler: the magic world is actually on Mars.]] It ends up as sci-fi and fantasy in a blender.

* ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' is a subversion. Set in a replica of Venice on the planet Aqua (née {{Mars}}), there are elaborate technological control systems [[{{Terraform}} maintaining the environment]] -- floating islands for climate control, underground facilities for enhancing the planet's gravity -- the works. Then the cast is caught up in supernatural time travel and ghosts of the past appear. This sounds like the setting for a gripping tale of planetary exploration and the technological and social struggles of the colonists as they deal with a mysterious past. But really, it's just an excuse for SceneryPorn, as the female gondoliers float through a beautiful, peaceful city in their [[SliceOfLife happy-go-lucky lives]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' features an invasion by demons from hell ... thwarted by a ''space marine'' on ''Mars'' with a ''plasma rifle.''

* The ''MortalKombat'' universe also combines elements of both science-fiction (cyborgs, advanced weaponry, parallel dimensions, spaceships) and fantasy (magic, dragons, gods, demons).

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' tends to mix the two so thoroughly that it can make one dizzy. It prologue starts with two warring [[OurTitansAreDifferent titans]] whose dead bodies make up the entire world, then transitions to advanced humans fighting a war against relentless killer robots. The robots can only be stopped by a [[CoolSword legendary ancient sword called the Monado]], which somewhat resembles a [[LaserBlade light-saber]]. Then the Monado starts granting the protagonist visions of the future, but that turns out to have a reasonable scientific explanation. Then it turns out that [[spoiler:the Monado is the manifestation of an evil god]]. [[hottip:*:And by the end of the game, you're fighting [[spoiler:[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant robot ghosts]] [[MindScrew in outer space]]]].

* ''{{Manga/ARIA}}'' is a subversion. Set in a replica of Venice on the planet Aqua (née {{Mars}}), there are elaborate technological control systems [[{{Terraform}} maintaining the environment]] -- floating islands for climate control, underground facilities for enhancing the planet's gravity -- the works. Then the cast is caught up in supernatural time travel and ghosts of the past appear. This sounds like the setting for a gripping tale of planetary exploration and the technological and social struggles of the colonists as they deal with a mysterious past. But really, it's just an excuse for SceneryPorn, as the female gondoliers float through a beautiful, peaceful city in their [[SliceOfLife happy-go-lucky lives]].

* The ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' film series is, at its core, an epic fantasy story told in modern times with [[HumongousMecha giant transforming robots]]. It has the usual elements such as a mythical origin story, ancient artifacts of great, ambiguous power, discussions of fate, destiny, and the call to adventure, themes of absolute good versus absolute evil, and messiah and anti-Christ figures.

* 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!

* ''[[StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' does this as well, by having Fayt and Cliff, who're members of the Pangalactic Federation, crash land on Elicoor II, a planet who's inhabitants are a [[MedievalStasis type-3 civilization.]] Fayt and Cliff go to great lengths to conceal the true nature of their identities to avoid unnecessary trouble, leading to predictable results. [[spoiler: Except for the part where they learn that their universe, and everything in it, is one big virtual game!]]

* Similarly, the primarily high fantasy ''{{Ultima}}'' and ''{{Heretic}}''[=/=]''{{Hexen}}'' series briefly skirted with SF on a number of occasions, resulting in the occasional raygun, spaceship, time machine, or [[spoiler:demonic]] supercomputer.

** SwampThing, as AlanMoore re-envisioned him, was the latest in an ancient line of plant elementals with godlike powers, and was able to travel to the afterlife and other immaterial realms. At the same time, his origin received a pseudo-scientific explanation (transmission of memories from predator to prey), and he later discovered that his mind was an electromagnetic wave pattern capable of subtle manipulation that allowed him to travel to any planet with vegetation.

* In ''[[LyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the Space-Time Administration Bureau that the main characters work for is like ''StarTrek'''s Federation, except where ''Star Trek'' would have a piece of TechnoBabble to power its futuristic devices, ''Nanoha'' just uses magic. Magical {{Energy Weapon}}s, magical FasterThanLightTravel, magical [[HollywoodCyborg cyborgs]], magical artificial intelligence with Windows-esque error codes...

* ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', a MegaCrossover, fuses many {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction sources into a single narrative. For example, a [[NorseMythology Norse God]] used ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons dimension door]]'' to get his party onto the [[StarTrek Klingon]] SpacePirates' ship, whereupon their sorceress summoned a protective [[PetalPower wall of roses]] as they hacked the computer to gain control of the ship -- all while a SpaceBattle was going between the two ships outside.

ScienceFantasy works, on the other hand, take traditional Fantasy and Science Fiction tropes and throw them in a blender, purposely creating a setting that has the [[MixAndMatch feel of both]]. Expect to see a lot of classic Fantasy tropes (e.g. [[SwordFight warriors with swords]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[HermeticMagic wizards]], [[BrightCastle castles]], and [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]]) ''and'' a lot of standard Science Fiction tropes (e.g. [[CoolStarship spaceships]], [[AlienTropes aliens]], [[EnergyWeapon lasers]], [[TropesOnScienceAndUnscience scientists]], {{robot}}s, and {{time travel}}).

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.

* ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', a MegaCrossover, fuses many {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction sources into a single narrative. For example, a [[NorseMythology Norse God]] used ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons dimension door]]'' to get his party onto the [[StarTrek Klingon]] {{Space Pirates}}' ship, whereupon their sorceress summoned a protective [[PetalPower wall of roses]] as they hacked the computer to gain control of the ship -- all while a SpaceBattle was going between the two ships outside.
* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'', 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.
* ''Fanfic/GloriousShotgunPrincess'' is a crossover between the (comparitively) hard SciFi of MassEffect, and the clearly fantasy (and [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting Kung-Fu]]) world of {{Exalted}}.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': 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 {{Edutainment Show}} -- but then the more zany science fiction elements took over. By now, it uses elements from all over SpeculativeFiction, from {{eldritch horror}}s to Venitian [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] to [[{{Cyborg}} Cybermen]]. And it's all brought together by a {{Time Travel}}ing TARDIS that apparently goes where and when it is needed.

* The universe of the tabletop roleplaying game ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]''. You know you're in for a case of {{science fantasy}} when your [[{{the verse}} verse]] is a {{crossover cosmology}} {{multiverse}} containing [[AllTheMyriadWays every possible type of universe]], but that's just the beginning. Described as “cosmic fantasy”, ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' is intended to have all the feeling of a fantasy setting, the only thing that makes it ''not'' explicitly fantasy is that it just so happens to have sci-fi “props” and window dressing. To quote directly from the book, “''Chaos'' is an over-the-top, epic cosmic fantasy. It's got dragons and spaceships, cyborgs and wizards, knights, aliens, superheroes, gods, demons, time travel, energy weapons, parallel universes, romance, quests, wars, duels, ancient conspiracies, buried treasures and lost artifacts, distant planets, weird creatures, corrupt politicians…and a guy named [[ArchangelMichael Mike]].”

*** The spinoff game ''DirgeOfCerberus'' and the ''[[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' film display that the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' world also has television and cell phones.

** ''Wizardry VII'' was the first of the series to embrace this trope-while the party is firmly grounded in fantasy, and the world seems to be with the full range of usual fantasy creatures and items, there's also the fact that the party arrived on the world by a starship, the {{Big Bad}} has a robotic army, two more alien races are engaged in a power struggle over the planet from their landing zones, and one of the native races travels around in rocket-powered aircraft.

* ''LastRes0rt'' is set several thousand years into the future, contains nanotechnology, flying robots, and a galactic society... and also contains lots of creatures that run off of soul-based magic, including vampires, djinn, and zombies. [[FurryComic Also, furries.]] It's labeled {{Cyberpunk}} -- but it's about as Cyberpunk as, say, {{Shadowrun}}.

* {{The Venture Bros}} had a MagicVersusScience contest between Dr. Venture and Dr. Orpheus (a parody of Dr. Strange), reaching its climax as Orpheus produces fire from his hands. Dr. Venture's scientific one-up? A lighter.

* In the ''ArtemisFowl'' series, the faeries have both real magic and higher tech than humans.

* The ''KingdomHearts'' series has magic, souls ("hearts"), fantastic creatures, and a prophecy involving a hero of destiny... alongside spaceships armed with lasers, {{Mad Scientist}}s, advanced robots, and (maybe even literally) {{Magical Computer}}s including an InsideAComputerSystem level. The spaceships with lasers are firmly on the magic side of it. They are made from size-changing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gummi blocks]] that broke off of the sky. On your second visit to the InsideAComputerSystem world you have to bring a computer program modified by [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone Merlin's magic]] to {{Tron}} so that he can do battle with the MCP.

* 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 'VideoGame/'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.

* 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.

* ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', a MegaCrossover, fuses many {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction sources into a single narrative. For example, a [[NorseMythology Norse God]] used ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons dimension door]]'' to get his party onto the [[StarTrek Klingon]] {{Space Pirates}}' ship, whereupon their sorceress summoned a protective [[PetalPower wall of roses]] as they hacked the computer to gain control of the ship -- all while a BeyondTheImpossible SpaceBattle was going between the two ships outside.

* ''OutlawStar'' has spaceships and aliens, but the SpacePirates use Chi Magic and the most popular [[PleasurePlanet resort world]] in the galaxy was originally a {{Mana}} mine. The main character's signature weapon is a fireball-flinging MagiTek pistol.

* ''[[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]]''. Technology meets mythology.

* ''Fanfic/UndocumentedFeatures'', a MegaCrossover, fuses many {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction sources into a single narrative. For example, a [[NorseMythology Norse God]] used ''[[DungeonsAndDragons dimension door]]'' to get his party onto the [[StarTrek Klingon]] {{Space Pirates}}' ship, whereupon their sorceress summoned a protective [[PetalPower wall of roses]] as they hacked the computer to gain control of the ship -- all while a BeyondTheImpossible SpaceBattle was going between the two ships outside.

* ''{{Tron}}'' starts out with what looks like a fairly standard [[AIIsACrapshoot evil AI]] plot, but then the main character is shot by a laser and "digitized" into a computer. He finds himself in a magical world where computer programs are people that worship godlike "users," and takes part in an epic quest to defeat an EvilOverlord (the Master Control Program) using a powerful artifact (an identity disc containing data that can destroy the MCP). The movie would probably be best described as a pure fantasy story, were it not for the fact that it was [[{{Setting}} set]] inside computers.

* 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."

* ''{{Shadowrun}}'' is the quintessential CyberPunk UrbanFantasy.
* ''{{GURPS}} Technomancer''. The first above-ground atomic explosion in the U.S. releases magic into the world. As a result, people can cast spells and weird hybrid creatures are born, but only in the area covered by magical fallout.
* ''DungeonsAndDragons''. Several supplements and campaign settings over the years have been based on this premise:

* {{Spelljammer}} is essentially D&D as a SpaceOpera with magic-powered [[SpaceIsAnOcean wooden ships]] sailing the phlogiston currents between stars.
* {{Eberron}} is one of the codifiers of the DungeonPunk sub-sub-genre. Elemental binding magic allows for airships, mag-lev trains, and sapient constructs, among other things.

* ''Dragonstar'' is a D20 RolePlayingGame that combines ''DungeonsAndDragons'' fantasy roleplay roles with a ScienceFiction setting with intersteller travel, robots and other features of futuristic technology.

* Similarly, the tabletop RPG ''{{Rifts}}'' is set a few centuries after the high tech world of tomorrow is utterly trashed by the return of magic. Human supremacist armies of cyborgs and HumongousMecha traipse across the landscape. Atlantis has risen. Sorcerers summon demons and raise the dead. Rifts in spacetime spew out critters from other dimensions more or less at random. Elves and dragons and goblins (oh my) roam the wilderness. Killer cyborgs from another dimension want to kill all humanoid life on Earth. Gods battle Alien invaders. Vampires openly run entire cities. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

** ''FinalFantasyIV'' had a spacecraft capable of going to the moon and a HumongousMecha, although it's otherwise fantasy in all respects.
** ''FinalFantasyVI'' had steampunk-esque technology and Edgar's tools, which included a chainsaw and drill. The [[SandIsWater sand-diving]] Castle Figaro was treated as using science rather than magic, although it's really not physically possible.
** ''FinalFantasyVII'' had near-modern cities, guns, genetic engineering (sort of), electricity, and power plants. However, those power plants ran on the literal lifeblood of the planet, which also produced magic crystals that could teach you magic.
*** The spinoff game ''DirgeOfCerberus'' and the ''[[FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' film display that the ''FinalFantasyVII'' world also has television and cell phones.
** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' has SummonMagic, magical TimeTravel, schools that convert into ancient moving fortresses, and a ship that got lost in space while launching an evil sorceress into a space prison. It also has Esthar, a CrystalSpiresAndTogas-like futuristic country.
** ''FinalFantasyIX'' is mostly fantasy, but includes quite a lot of {{Steampunk}} technology and [[spoiler: a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficiently Advanced]] {{Magitek}} alien race to which both the protagonist and the BigBad belong]].
** ''FinalFantasyX'' has machina, a slightly steampunk-esque technology that can make guns, grenades, mecha, and blitzball stadiums. On the other hand, there's an EldritchAbomination running around killing everyone and the [[OurSoulsAreDifferent pyreflies]] that make up a person can reform into monsters after their death.
** ''FinalFantasyXII'' has guns and more science fiction like airships than previous titles, but the airships are powered by magical [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]]. And all the other magical elements.
** ''FinalFantasyXIII'' appears to be ScienceFiction at first, with guns, more "realistic" airships, mecha, and genetic engineering. But most, if not all, of the tech is powered by fal'cie, magical beings. Who can also grant magical powers to chosen humans, [[BlessedWithSuck although it sucks to be chosen this way for the human]].

* For a game-series with a fundamentally magic premise (books that act as portals, scribed in an ancient arcane language), the ''{{Myst}}'' games incorporate an awful lot of sci-fi trappings: transport pods, electronic viewers, spaceships, submarines, giant mechanical engines, alien ecologies, orbital observatories, etc.

* ''GirlGenius'' is {{steampunk}} combined with fantasy. Most of the weird stuff can be explained by technology, but not everything. The magic includes stuff like the river Dyne (which is an apparently natural spring the waters of which make the drinker a mad genius, though in most cases it's instantly lethal), Geisterdamen (ghost-like beings), Frankenstein-esque reanimated corpses, Jaegermonsters (non-human beings with superhuman strength and [[LongLived lifespans]] who are former humans who drank the [[SuperSerum "Jaegerdraught"]]), multiple cases of BrainUploading, the [[GeniusLoci castle Heterodyne]]'s seemingly telekinetic ability to move chunks of itself...

* ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' has both magic and futuristic technology, and combinations of the two.

* ''{{Thundercats}}'' has space travel, futuristic vehicles and the like, but also features a magic sword used by the hero and an undead SorcerousOverlord as the main villain.

* ''GunnerkriggCourt''. There are robots and other advanced tech in the Court, while the Gillitie Wood is full of magic-users (including PhysicalGod Coyote). Transformation to/from forest creatures is an accepted part of the universe, and the Court has students and teachers skilled in "etheric sciences".

In any event, it's bound to include SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic, {{Magitech}}, FunctionalMagic, and MagicFromTechnology.

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.

* ''ScrappedPrincess'' blends fantasy and sci-fi elements, with a world seemingly in MedievalStasis where magic and TronLines abound. Then adds RuinsOfTheModernAge [[spoiler: and the Skid into the mix and the existences of Xeferis, and Natalie, who're [[EmpathicWeapon dragoons]] that link with their masters. And the Peacemakers, who are a powerful race of alien overlords who can enslave the minds of all who gaze upon them. To say nothing of their true power!]]

* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' seemed to be straight UrbanFantasy at first, what with the [[VancianMagic mages]] and {{golem}}s and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. Then [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Chachamaru]] came in. And the {{Mad Scientist}}s. And the [[{{Magitek}} Magic Internet]]. And the magical PlayfulHacker vs TheCracker face-off in cyberspace. And the {{Mar|s}}tian {{Time Travel}}ler from the future with HumongousMecha and {{Mecha-Mooks}}. And most recently, it seems that [[spoiler: the magic world is actually on Mars.]] It ends up as sci-fi and fantasy in a blender.

* ''UruseiYatsura'' technically may be a sci-fi, but essentially all of the aliens are some form of {{Youkai}} from JapaneseMythology: Lum is from the Planet Oni, Yuki the yuki-onna is from Neptune, etc. In practice, anything from Science Fiction or Fantasy can happen from TimeTravel to {{Onmyodo}} exorcisms, [[RuleOfFunny so long as it's funny]].

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', anyone?! Starts out as a RealRobot show with some religious symbolism, but quickly goes down the rabbit hole of Christian/Jewish/Kabbalistic prophecy, angels, and a legendary weapon on the Moon. Here's the obligatory link to MindScrew which must come with every reference to ''NGE'' under state law.
* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' features magical girls and witches that really ''are'' magical. However, this entire arrangement was set up by a [[spoiler:hyper-advanced alien race harvesting the energy of magical girls'/witches' emotions in an attempt to hold off the heat death of the universe]].

* ''ScrappedPrincess'' blends fantasy and sci-fi elements, with a world seemingly in MedievalStasis where magic and TronLines abound. Then adds RuinsOfTheModernAge [[spoiler: and the Skid into the mix. Not to mention the existences of Xeferis, and Natalie, who're [[EmpathicWeapon dragoons]] that link with their masters. And the Peacemakers, who are a powerful race of alien overlords who can enslave the minds of all who gaze upon them. To say nothing of their true power!]]

* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' seemed to be straight UrbanFantasy at first, what with the [[VancianMagic mages]] and {{golem}}s and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]]. Then [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Chachamaru]] came in. And the {{Mad Scientist}}s. And the [[{{Magitek}} Magic Internet]]. And the magical PlayfulHacker vs TheCracker face-off in cyberspace. And the {{Mar|s}}tian {{Time Travel}}ler from the future with HumongousMecha and {{Mecha-Mooks}}. And most recently, it seems that [[spoiler: the magic world is actually on Mars.]] It pretty much ends up as sci-fi and fantasy in a blender.

* The ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' film series is, at its core, an epic fantasy story told in modern times with [[HumongousMecha giant transforming robots]]. It has the usual elements such as a mythical origin story, ancient artifacts of great, ambiguous power, discussions of fate, destiny, and the call to adventure, themes of absolute good versus absolute evil, and even messiah and anti-Christ figures.

* [[DavidWeber David Weber's]] ''HellsGate'' series is about two human. civilizations coming into contact with each other through inter-universal portals. One civilization, The Union of Aracana, is a very {{Magitek}} civilization with wizards, dragons (that are genetically engineered, of course) and the the main fighting weapons are swords and crossbows. The other one, The Empire of Sharona, has PsychicPowers and other little things like rifles, machine guns, cannons, steam engines, armored personnel carriers, trains, battleships, etc... Neither side reacts well to the existence of the other.

* 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''.

* The universe of the tabletop roleplaying game ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' is a ''perfect example'' of this trope. You know you're in for a case of {{science fantasy}} when your [[{{the verse}} verse]] is a {{crossover cosmology}} {{multiverse}} containing [[AllTheMyriadWays every possible type of universe]], but that's just the beginning. Described as “cosmic fantasy”, ''[[DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate Chaos]]'' is intended to have all the feeling of a fantasy setting, the only thing that makes it ''not'' explicitly fantasy is that it just so happens to have sci-fi “props” and window dressing. To quote directly from the book, “''Chaos'' is an over-the-top, epic cosmic fantasy. It's got dragons and spaceships, cyborgs and wizards, knights, aliens, superheroes, gods, demons, time travel, energy weapons, parallel universes, romance, quests, wars, duels, ancient conspiracies, buried treasures and lost artifacts, distant planets, weird creatures, corrupt politicians…and a guy named [[ArchangelMichael Mike]].”

** ''FinalFantasyXII'' has guns and more science fiction like airships than previous titles, but the airships are powered by magical [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]]. Not to mention all the other magical elements.

* The ''KingdomHearts'' series has magic, souls ("hearts"), fantastic creatures, and a prophecy involving a hero of destiny... alongside spaceships armed with lasers, {{Mad Scientist}}s, advanced robots, and (maybe even literally) {{Magical Computer}}s including an InsideAComputerSystem level.
** Something to note: The spaceships with lasers are firmly on the magic side of it. They are made from size-changing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gummi blocks]] that broke off of the sky.
** Too illustrate just how weird this gets, on your second visit to the InsideAComputerSystem world you have to bring a computer program modified by [[Disney/TheSwordInTheStone Merlin's magic]] to {{Tron}} so that he can do battle with the MCP.

** Also, the realms of Aeterius and Oblivion were originally presented as simply this world's equivalent of Heaven and Hell. Then ''The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'' featured an observatory where the realms of Oblivion appeared as planets orbiting Nirn (the mortal world) and the gods as even more distant planets at the edge of a solar system. So basically, the Oblivion Gates? Those may or may not be [[StarGate stargates]] in disguise.

** ''Wizardry 8'' takes this to an even more extreme bent, where powerful magic and advanced technology happily coexist-you'll see sophisticated artificial intelligences talking happily with wizards, flamethrowers and rocket launchers wielded by elves, and an entire alien airbase guarded by potent technological and magical defenses.

* ''{{Warcraft}}'' 'verse's technology is roughly at pre-industrial level, where guns are getting common, but swords and bows are still viable. However, the range of technology available is quite large. [[RockBeatsLaser Rock axes]] can down [[{{Magitek}} demonic]] HumongousMecha, and {{Death Ray}}s can be used against ancient evil gods.
** Not to mention the dimension-hopping giants that ride around in spaceships.

* ''AsurasWrath'' basically IS this trope with a [[HinduMythology Hindu]] and [[{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] twist.

* 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.
** Don't forget Energized Protodermis, the universe's most powerful substance that can either transform or destroy whatever it touches. What you get is based on [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny.]] Oh, and it's sentient.

*** 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.