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Good points Steve. Those are some things that seem like well accepted cliches that nobody bats an eye at. A few try to break the norm and look at things different, and they usually get labeled as eccentrics or fools for doing it. Oddly though, I've actually taken just as much away from those as other more traditional sci-fi's. One that comes to mind is a sci-fi novel (forget the name) where there was no such thing as shields, artificial gravity, FTL and the like. It was all traditional rocket ships which had to accelerate over a period of time, and then decelerate and they fired lasers, you wore space suits inside the ship in case the hull was breached from laser fire, and you had to use gravity folds in space in order to jump between stars.
Very fun book despite not using more cliche sci-fi systems and technology. I almost wish I could remember the book because I'd read it again.
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