Comments on: Writing Science Fiction, part 2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/ A Blog On Writing Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:15:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: 🖋 Writing Links Round Up 4/24 – B. Shaun Smith https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-158408 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:47:23 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-158408 […] Writing Science Fiction, part 2 […]

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157649 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:35:08 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157649 I've written ONE sci-fi (because I had to for the NYC Midnight contest) and I was shocked at how much I liked it. It was about specialized and advanced knowledge, and kind of Big Brother-ish. It was a tremendous amount of fun to take a cutting edge technology that is barely started and turn it into the plot of a story. I'd totally go there again.

But MAN, the research is hard.

]]> By: Kris Maze https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157267 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 23:06:16 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157267 Hi Ellen,
These are great considerations for writing science fiction. Inventing technology is a fun part of the genre for sure.

Thank you for your insights and reminders for one of my favorite genres.
Kris

]]> By: Lynette M Burrows https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157261 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:48:08 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157261 Love the tools and resources you've shared, Ellen. I write soft science based on medical science, technology, and psychology. The sciences both causes the story problems and solve the problems.

]]> By: Ellen Buikema https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157260 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:13:27 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157260 In reply to MIffie Seideman.

I totally agree, Miffie. It makes sense that you'd enjoy the medical science as it jives nicely with your background.

I'll keep watch for a future germ-based sci-fi story written by you.

]]> By: Ellen Buikema https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157259 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:09:32 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157259 In reply to Lisa Norman.

I'm so glad, Lisa!
I find technology helpful and at times crazy-making, so I'm down with the help and hinder too.

]]> By: MIffie Seideman https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157256 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:13:59 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157256 Very good points, Ellen! I would lean very heavily on medical science, if I were to write Sci-Fi. A good example is the movie Contagion, which was heavily watched at the beginning of Covid (although really too close to home at the time!). It tracked an organism that spread disease, using the CDC and other real life scientific facts to create a fake pandemic. It was (mostly) believable. Another is Tom Clancy's Executive Orders- where a weaponized strain of the ebola virus created great plot twists and turns. As long at the facts seem realistic and not medically stretched beyond believability, these kinds of medical Sci-Fi can be a great read.

]]> By: Lisa Norman https://writersinthestormblog.com/2023/02/writing-science-fiction-part-2/#comment-157255 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:53:21 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=47208#comment-157255 I love soft scifi. In my stories the technology is more of an extension of the various species that my characters encounter. I like it when the technology both helps and hinders, especially since technology is such a big part of my life, it feels realistic for it to be a pain occasionally.

Love these posts!

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