If that's your hang-up, I guess I would call it more sci-fi than fantasy, the latter in my mind being stuff like Hobbit/Rings etc, mystical lands/creatures like elves, orcs, what have you.
As for the spice, while I haven't ever given the matter much thought, it's not necessarily a contradiction, in that they may well have developed interstellar travel by means of computer before they were banned, then phased them out so only the Navigators can do it.
Which is an interesting line to think about - eliminating computers is mentioned almost in passing, and you think kind of like "probably for a good reason" (maybe it's explained more and I forgot, but either way)(good reason like everyone tracked or something) when in reality it may well have been done to shut down the proles having the power of them - including travel. Basically this one move would easily concentrate abilities for the elites.
Imagine if we didn't have the internet for communication right now...or gas cars....
If that's your hang-up, I guess I would call it more sci-fi than fantasy, the latter in my mind being stuff like Hobbit/Rings etc, mystical lands/creatures like elves, orcs, what have you.
As for the spice, while I haven't ever given the matter much thought, it's not necessarily a contradiction, in that they may well have developed interstellar travel by means of computer before they were banned, then phased them out so only the Navigators can do it.
Which is an interesting line to think about - eliminating computers is mentioned almost in passing, and you think kind of like "probably for a good reason" (maybe it's explained more and I forgot, but either way)(good reason like everyone tracked or something) when in reality it may well have been done to shut down the proles having the power of them - including travel. Basically this one move would easily concentrate abilities for the elites.
Imagine if we didn't have the internet for communication right now...or gas cars....