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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
So, does that make you an "anything goes, who cares if it's explainable science" kind of guy, or are you a "genres are meaningless" kind of guy? Or something other?
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Well to a degree genres are meaningless, because if the story is good and the character compelling then who cares when, where or how it is set.
Since we are talking about Science Fiction I am more of a free wheeling anything goes reader. If the story is grounded by your Characters who cares how that FTL drive works because to them it would be no different to starting a car would be for us.
In the end the Authors story is set in his universe, if up is down, and down is up that is up the Author. If we spent out time making everything hyper realistic then we lose the whimsy and the fantastical.
I've read hard science scifi that frankly stank as the author is more interested in telling us how that photon laser death ray worked than actually telling a story. The best scifi I've read doesn't get hung up on that - Starship Troopers is a good example of concentrating on the characters journey rather than all the tech surronding him. Sure Rico tries to explain how the powered suits work, but its from his stand point of the user and doesn't get bogged down into the science of it. Of course Starship Troopers is also a good social satire as well.
In my collection of One Year War stories not once is the focus on the tech, granted it cheats because of the borrowed genre, but the reader in the end doesn't care how a fushion reactor works, or how the giant mech really walks.
The Law is there is no laws
And that is one Authors, and one fan of scifi's opinion.
