Claire
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R. James Stevens:
When writing sci fi/future stories - do you think, as a writer, you need to know all the mechanics of your world beforehand? Like ship design & how individual technologies work etc or do you just make it up - sorry, develop it - as you need it?
R. James Stevens
There's a lot of gray areas there, and I would say it depends on what you are writing, and into which portion of SciFi it falls. Hard SciFi - you most definitely have to have a handle on things technology-wise. Those fans are expecting the real deal, and straying too far from what has already been established in other SciFi material is a killer as far as gaining/maintaining fans is concerned.
However, farther down the spectrum, when you create your own worlds its a little more forgiving to create things how you want them without regard to how it "should" be in real life. After all, this is Science FICTION, right?
However, farther down the spectrum, when you create your own worlds its a little more forgiving to create things how you want them without regard to how it "should" be in real life. After all, this is Science FICTION, right?
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