Timeline for The role of inexplicable events in hard science fiction
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 15:42 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2019 at 13:19 | answer | added | Stefanos Zilellis | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 6, 2019 at 20:35 | history | edited | wetcircuit |
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| Jul 31, 2018 at 1:46 | answer | added | EvilSnack | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 3:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1023403367421370374 | ||
| Jul 28, 2018 at 14:29 | answer | added | vsz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | a4android | @Ash POB & Too Story Based VTCs on WB SE would be plain wrong. Your question is too close to idea generation to be in scope. You're basically right it wouldn't be a good fit there. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 18:13 | comment | added | Ash | @MishaR The Wreck of the River of Stars, Rifters Trilogy, Lost Fleet, Queendom of Sol, (which looks much softer than it is if you don't look at the work the author did before he started writing it). The Lost Fleet books use FTL and the Queendom and Rifters both ignore a couple of bits of inconveniently missing material science but otherwise they're grounded in what we know and what we can already do with only a little future tech. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 17:56 | comment | added | Misha R | @Ash Do you have some examples of sci fi novels / stories that come close to what you have in mind? You seem to draw a strong distinction between sci fi and what you consider space opera; what is an example of non-opera sci fi? | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 17:18 | comment | added | Ash | @TimB I tried Night's Dawn, last year in fact, found it aggravatingly slow and ponderous, finally gave up halfway through the second book. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 16:29 | comment | added | Tim B | Recommended reading: the Night's Dawn Trilogy - sci fi that crosses the line into fantasy/horror on several occasions while remaining science based to the core throughout. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 16:25 | answer | added | Chronocidal | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 13:32 | answer | added | Valthek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 11:37 | history | edited | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Misha R | @Ash Space Opera is part of the science fiction category, and the difference has more to do with the setting and drama than with the amount of fantasy (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera). Either way, considering that the wiki on space opera lists Asimov's Foundation series as an example, I think we can agree that we aren't necessarily talking about Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy. Are you looking to write a fully scientifically accurate science novel that takes place in the future where nearly everything was discovered? That's a heck of a project. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 10:30 | comment | added | Ash | @Philipp No I'll have to look at that. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 10:29 | comment | added | Ash | @MishaR That's the difference between space opera, which is not really science fiction so much has future fantasy, and sci-fi you can get away with a lot more in a space opera with a lot less justification. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 10:02 | answer | added | Philipp | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 9:58 | comment | added | Philipp | Have you read/seen The Expanse? It's a hard science fiction series where the scientists suddenly get stumped by something they can't explain. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 8:33 | answer | added | AnoE | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 5:53 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 5 | |
| S Jul 23, 2018 at 23:41 | history | suggested | user31257 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I didn't actually know unexplainable was a word
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 23:07 | comment | added | jpmc26 | "The modern world has few true mysteries..." Funny joke. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | Misha R | Not sure I understand the issue. Don't many sci fi high-tech settings involve odd events that defy even futuristic technology? In Solaris, for instance, there is a living ocean whose mechanism and purpose nobody understands. In 2001: A Space Odyssey there is the monolith. The children's destination in Childhood's End. The Shrike in Hyperion. I would say that this stuff is pretty common in sci fi, no? | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 21:18 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 20:03 | answer | added | Alen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 19:53 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 19:14 | comment | added | Ash | @Alexander The latter, events that are simply commented on as mysteries that can't be explained. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 19:07 | comment | added | Alexander | Do you want those events to be plot-driving mysteries, or want them to remain inexplicable through the end? | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:11 | answer | added | BrP | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 16:14 | answer | added | user32282 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 13:34 | answer | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | timeline score: 34 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:58 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | Totumus Maximus | @Ash they get so lazy they ignore everything around them don't care to explain anything anymore and just leave the planet because things go south? | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:50 | comment | added | Ash | @TotumusMaximus Something along the line of "humans are too lazy to explain things?" | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:45 | comment | added | Totumus Maximus | @Ash I like the story of humans in WALL-E. Humans are lazy. They invent things to make them more lazy. So maybe a good starting point for your research ;) | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:38 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:36 | comment | added | Ash | @MarkBaker Maybe but I can see the POB and "Story-based" VTCs piling up pretty quick, maybe it's just a poor fit in general. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:34 | history | edited | Ash |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | user16226 | This seems like more of a worldbuilding question than a writing question. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 11:42 | history | asked | Ash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |