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Originally Posted by Raptor1

Any particular reason for that? Sure, it has some important fantasy elements, but it still has many more (And still largely critical) science fiction elements...

Simply based on how Lucas wrote it. Science Fiction generally relies on a base of current scientific theory or a set of fictional theories on how the universe works. None of that was in Star Wars, it was added later by others (like in the "Essential Guides" books). You can really see this in the famous Kessel Run line in Star Wars or the escape of the Falcon in Empire where stuff just doesn't make scientific sense.

That's not to say that Star Wars is bad its just not real Sci Fi more of a something in between Scifi and Fantasy. Its whats called now a "Space Opera", in fact Space Opera's definition was mostly changed by Star Wars. Before Space Opera was hacky, poorly written, trashy stuff set in space. Star Wars showed it could be good.