But it's no less about big spaceships than it is about robots.
And whether it's big spaceships or robots or nanotechnology or genetic modification or the information age or post-apocalypse society is completely irrelevent in the case where the author knows bog all about science or technology or futurism, and is using SF (or any other recognisable genre) because it's just another tool in the writer's kit to provide a certain style of window-dressing.
My claim is that the only way "every author" can write science fiction is if many or most of them are writing pointless science fiction.
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Date: 2003-07-26 10:48 am (UTC)But it's no less about big spaceships than it is about robots.
And whether it's big spaceships or robots or nanotechnology or genetic modification or the information age or post-apocalypse society is completely irrelevent in the case where the author knows bog all about science or technology or futurism, and is using SF (or any other recognisable genre) because it's just another tool in the writer's kit to provide a certain style of window-dressing.
My claim is that the only way "every author" can write science fiction is if many or most of them are writing pointless science fiction.