Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
I mean, Girl Genius has a character essentially transported from 300 years before the main plot refer to mad scientists as wizards, and despite Sparks taking offence to the term it makes complete sense when you look at the objects they make. There's even a near certainty that a prophecy out the rightful king returning might come true, but the behind the scenes work to make that happen is addressed (and the prophecy is almost certainly apocryphal).

However I personally tend to put Star Wars in the fantasy pile. At lot of it has to do with how the franchise revolves around a pair of religions who's practitioners use magic.
I have heard the term Science-Fantasy used for SW in the past.