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The SF vs. SciFi Debate | by Illiad | 2004-05-11 01:06:19 |
| consistency, clarity, characters |
by zeldo |
2004-05-11 04:32:04 |
Basically, your comment above that technologies are used in more than one way. For example, in Star Trek, everyone should be essentially immortal, because they can just keep fixing themselves with the transporter. (Why I don't like TNG.)That's the consistency thing. Clarity - if there's strange new made-up technology, that's great, but I need to be able to figure out how it works from what's written. Don't want FTL drive with tons of 'why this works in real physics' gobbledygook, just want to know how it works in the book - as you say, time dilation is possible, or perhaps they use some other system where it doesn't occur.
My pet hate is books that don't have characters, just cardboard cut-outs that spend chapter after chapter explaining the history of the technology. If I wanted that, I'd read non-fiction...
So there you go. Oh, and I agree about the humanoid aliens as well. |
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