One can take it even further with The Wheel. Even the magic system, which is very scientifically based, lends us to call it magical Sci-Fi. So perhaps some of the other concepts of Sci-Fi are there too, such as social commentaries or looking at issues from other angles.
Yes! And the big thing about fantasy is that you can address questions of good and evil without making people run for cover and thinking, “Oh my God, he’s going to turn into a preacher any minute now.” But, making his great theme of making decisions without enough information is so true.
And, his early fan letters, I noticed, would come from two large categories of adult: people in law enforcement and people in medicine: doctors, nurses, policemen, district attorneys. What do these groups have in common? They’re making life and death decisions, every day, without enough information. The policeman, should he draw his weapon? If so, he will probably be shot at himself. The doctor, dealing with a person who is dying, and you never have enough information.
And sometimes, you just have to act.
Yes, and how you do that is a major theme in the series, and how you can be expected to have to do that.
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