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Q&A Is Social Media Science Fiction?

It isn't science fiction, it is just Contemporary fiction, aka Realistic fiction. A Science Fiction story must rely heavily on some non-existing tech or some reasonably plausible guess at a futuri...

posted 5y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-19T22:13:45Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:39:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T11:39:55Z (almost 5 years ago)
It isn't science fiction, it is just Contemporary fiction, aka Realistic fiction.

A Science Fiction story must rely heavily on some non-existing tech or some reasonably plausible guess at a futuristic development; like being visited by aliens, or discovering them.

In some scenarios (about the future, or space operas, etc) there is a lot of this; in others it can be just one thing; e.g. a time-travel story may have only one piece of non-existing tech (the time machine).

The NEW tech (or discovery) must be central to the story line and what happens, e.g. in Star Wars, FTL space travel, light sabers, sentient robots and sentient aliens are all central to the plot. In Men In Black, only a little new tech is important, but aliens are central to the plot.

It isn't "science fiction" if it is about science but the science employed is not fictional; it is what we already know, you offer no surprises or eye-opening innovations on the tech front, or about the future.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-04-07T22:56:41Z (over 5 years ago)
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