Don't forget "The Time Machine" with the Eloi and the Morlocks.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
All of them are dystopian cautionary tales of the "If this goes on..." form, postulating bad ends that might result from current directions. And all are set in the future. Remove the future setting, and you remove the premise and the story.
I talked about SF tropes, but the tropes don't have to directly include science or technology.
Another common error is too narrow a view of science. While "hard" SF tends to be based on physics or chemistry, plenty of other sciences have been fertile seeds for SF. Linguistics is one, like Samuel R. Delany's _Babel 17_. Anthropology is another, like most of the work of the late Chad Oliver. In the case of Brave New Worlds, it's genetics, and the consequences of trying to breed a new, improved humanity.
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Dennis
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