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Someone drew an article<\/a> to my attention that explores the mystical and fantastic in recent sci-fi, and asks whether it is overtaking the scientific component, looking at the example of the recent movie 9<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wonder if the \u201cy\u201d in SyFy (the new name of the Sci-Fi Channel) is from \u201cmYsticism\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

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Someone drew an article to my attention that explores the mystical and fantastic in recent sci-fi, and asks whether it is overtaking the scientific component, looking at the example of the recent movie 9. 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