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Science Fiction Author. 🪐🚀👻🐉📚

I write a wide range of stories, science fiction, paranormal & dark fantasy.

Some are humorous, and others are more poignant and thought-provoking.

When asked where I get my ideas from, I can only explain that my mind is like a septic tank; weird bits of, well, you know what, float to the surface from time to time and become the kernel of my stories.

As a middle-class, middle-aged, white bloke – If you need anything ‘mansplaining’, I’m here to help!

I’m a husband and a father, living in East Anglia, UK, and share my home with various animals, including dogs, cats, chickens, a duck and a goose.

Member of Writers Anonymous. - https://www.writersanonymous.co.uk/

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Yes, you can have a story set in the 'Now' and have it science fiction. There are many.
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Hi Vinayak, thank you for your question.
Yes, you can have a story set in the 'Now' and have it science fiction. There are many.
If you consider a film such as the Matrix, it's set in the real world, only it isn't. Yet when you see a street with everyone walking while watching their phones, aren't we living in a kind of Matrix of our own making?
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The Barsoom Novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs – An example of ‘World Building’.

The first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Martian Novels was published in 1912, as a serialisation. The gender and racial attitudes portrayed in the book are of its time and not something I wanted to explore in this article.
I would like to consider what Sci-Fi tropes Burroughs introduces and how the science of ‘Mars’ has changed in the 114 years since the stories were first published.

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