Timeline for How do you prevent yourself from neglecting scientific accuracy in a sci-fi-fantasy story without telling?
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| Mar 17, 2023 at 22:20 | comment | added | Bobson | @ruakh Clarke's Third Law says you're right about that. | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 7:55 | answer | added | jwenting | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 16, 2023 at 11:07 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 16, 2023 at 10:52 | answer | added | AnoE | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 15, 2023 at 20:03 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | Don't explain magic. It won't make any sense. All you need is something like "The warp drive creates a wormhole and we fall in to it to arrive at the location we want to be." In Asimov's Foundation, he doesn't describe how spaceships move at all, except to say they "jump" and towards the galactic core the values to the right of the decimal start mattering. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 19:29 | comment | added | Lamar Latrell | Liu's 'Death's End' is roughly 30% character exposition and tech detail dumps, it's like reading a rambling Wikipedia article. Pity, as the first two books in the series were much much better. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 17:59 | answer | added | Michael Stachowsky | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 10:33 | answer | added | AmiralPatate | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 9:49 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | @ruakh: I was not aware of Sanderson's First Law, and I dearly thank you for bringing it to my attention! | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 7:46 | comment | added | ruakh | Are you familiar with Sanderson's First Law? It's about magic, but I think the same applies to fictional technologies in sci-fi. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 5:22 | answer | added | Flater | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 2:00 | comment | added | kaya3 | "I was told it's essential to explain how they function and how they operate" - That sounds like one person's opinion, stated too strongly. How many of your favourite science fiction stories, by other writers, contain these "essential" explanations? | |
| Mar 14, 2023 at 23:15 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 14, 2023 at 22:00 | answer | added | Gary R. | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 14, 2023 at 16:14 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 14, 2023 at 16:00 | answer | added | Boba Fit | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 14, 2023 at 15:35 | history | edited | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2023 at 15:15 | history | asked | user36239 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |