

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. Then the cast is caught up in supernatural time travel and ghosts of the past appear. ARIA is set in a replica of Venice on the planet Aqua (née Mars), there are elaborate technological control systems maintaining the environment - floating islands for climate control, underground facilities for enhancing the planet's gravity - the works.Compare and contrast Fantastic Science, where magic operates by logical rules similar to real-world science, and The Spark of Genius, where powers and abilities that operate like fantasy magic are dressed up in scientific trappings. Compare and contrast Doing In the Wizard and Doing In the Scientist, which retcons a fantasy element to a sci-fi one and vice versa. Contrast How Unscientific!, where the mix of genres seems out of place Magic Versus Science, where both aspects are in a rivalry, and The Magic Versus Technology War, where an in-universe warfare happens between wizards and scientists. Compare Urban Fantasy, Gaslamp Fantasy, Space Opera, Dungeon Punk, and Planetary Romance. Subtrope of Speculative Fiction, under which all Fantasy and Science Fiction falls. For an explanation of why the genres are so linked, see the analysis page on Speculative Fiction. Science Fantasy lies near the middle of a continuum between Science Fiction and Fantasy, so there will naturally be a wide range of works that lie somewhere between "Fantasy with a dash of Sci-Fi" and " Sci-Fi with a smidgen of Fantasy". It should be noted that some works may slant towards one or the other, yet still contain elements of both. Sometimes, it may contain so much fantasy and science fiction as to be both Fantasy Kitchen Sink and Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink. In any event, it's bound to include Sufficiently Analyzed Magic, Magitek, Functional Magic, Magic from Technology, Fantasy Aliens, and probably Scientifically Understandable Sorcery.
