User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative Author - RWBY Relativity/@comment-25396609-20160225025456/@comment-24218038-20160225032156

Sorry, having technology doesn't make science fiction. Believe me, as an author, I would have never sold my book to an agent if I couldn't discern what type it was. This is definitely fantasy.

here's a little story from Alan Scott Card, author of Ender's game. explaining that fact

''As I rewrote “Tinker,” I was delighted to see how terrible the earlier version had been. After all, if I could see, at twenty-four, how bad the story was that looked so brilliant to me at nineteen, it must mean I had learned something in the intervening years. So it was with high hopes that I typed the new draft, tucked it into an envelope and mailed it away to Analog magazine.''

'' Why Analog? Because in those days it was the only science fiction magazine that was listed in Writer’s Market. I had never actually read an issue of the magazine. Still, my story was science fiction, and Analog was a science fiction magazine. What could be more logical?''

'' The story came back in due course, rejected. But there was something in the accompanying letter to encourage me. Ben Bova, then editor of Analog, told me that he liked the way I wrote and hoped to see more stories from me.''

 So why was he rejecting “Tinker”?'' Because it wasn’t science fiction. “Analog publishes only science fiction,” said Ben, so of course a fantasy like “Tinker” simply wouldn’t do.''

'' I was outraged-at first. “Tinker” had psionic powers, a colony planet, a far future time period-if that wasn’t science fiction, what was?''

'' Until I looked again at the story the way Ben Bova must have seen it. He knew nothing about the other stories in the cycle. “Tinker” included no mention of its taking place on a world being colonized by human beings, and there was nothing alien about the landscape. It could have been an English village in about 950 A.D.''