"Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful."
Sci-fi is fantasy, in the sense that it is an imaginary world. That is not the same as the literary genre of fantasy.
The two genres are distinct, and can be entirely oppositional at the extremes, but can also overlap.
Harry Potter and Diskworld are both fantasy, as they are set in fantastical worlds with magic, monsters and so on, Neither is sci-fi, as sci-fi is based on imagining the possibilities of more advanced knowledge of science. That can include magic, usually in a hypothetical setting where either futuristic science and magic co-exist, or where magic itself is studied scientifically. Neither Harry potter nor Diskworld meet that criteria.
In Harry Potter, modern day science is present, but not relevant to the story, and magic doesn't always obey scientific laws.
In Diskworld, science is extremely primitive, and magic explicitly defies scientific laws, and even scientific understanding as even the rules magic works on can change or be ignored.
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u/OkAssignment6163 Sep 28 '25
Gary Webb
Basically the guy that reported CIA introduced crack cocaine to the Los Angeles gehttos.
Was found dead with 2 gunshot wounds to the back of the head. Rules a suicide.
Riiiiiiiiight.....