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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
If you want to write hard sci-fi, a 5 minute glace at this page should tell you all the DOs and DON'Ts about spaceships, with the rest of the site serving to elaborate if you care to learn more about a subject. There's also a good essay on respecting science in science fiction.
Vonda N. McIntyre's "Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy,
General Useful Information, & Other Opinionated Comments" is also neat. Read it here or here. |
Personally, I always believed that the whole point of sci-fi was that it didn't conform to any hard and fast rules. Isn't the speculation and guessing of future technological developments part of the attraction?
Can't really say that I look forward to all future sci-fi being written from a standard set of rules!