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: Potential confusion: referring to home planet as "Earth" I'm writing a science fiction story and it's based in another galaxy, colonised by humans originally on a geographically equivalent "Earth".
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: What breaks suspension of disbelief? So much of Sci-Fi and Fantasy requires the viewer (or reader) to suspend their disbelief: The speed of light can be circumvented, magic works, vampires are
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: Vision/dream as an effective opening? I'm looking for opinions on the effectiveness of this opening scene. It's a vision, not that he knows that at first. He thinks it a dream and won't quite
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: World Building critique: Building an SF society off a tangent of "Adaptation" I'm writing a short story for my english final - I'm a junior in high school; we've already taken our AP exam,
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: Conlang question Diving (OK, dove) into conlanging for a novel I'm working on. The Conlang is atmospheric and allows for some subplot intrigue, but it's not absolutely essential to the story.
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: Is it safe to create a wiki for a book (or something featured in it) before the book is published? I'm working on a sci-fi novel, and it contains a lot of fictional creatures, which are
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: Defining Terms: To Capitalize or Not To Capitalize? Let's say that I defined a new term in my writing, such as (yes, it's second-person): You spot a Holo-Reader—a long, silver metal tube
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: Querying for a setting-heavy speculative fiction novel I'm an attentive follower of Janet Reid's Query Shark, and I've learned a lot. But Reid doesn't represent speculative fiction, which seems
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: An engineering student wants to write fiction, where to start? I'm a computer engineering student, programmer, avid book lover and have a very vivid (some would say "screwed up") mind. I recently
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: What's "fair use" for borrowing someone else's invented term? Let's say I'm writing a sci-fi novel. I want to use a word which another writer has coined, which has become well-recognized outside
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: Spaceships - It or She? I'm writing a Science Fiction novel and describing a space ship. Sea Ships are usually feminine, while space ships don't seem to be either feminine or neutral. Would
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: Portraying life in a current milieu for science fiction that wants to be timeless Should a science fiction that wants to stand the test of time go into detailed daily life of the city it
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: Does this beginning hook the reader? Guide lines Q no. 4: This is supposed to be the opening part, but certainly not the whole of the first chapter or page for that matter... I'm not exactly
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: Do these starting paragraphs make you want to keep reading? OK, first, I'm not a native. So, what you do by instinct and a bit of research, I do by extensive research, including accents and
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: Is it okay to attempt to write in the style of another person, and how is that done well? I want to write like Neal Stephenson- I read Snow Crash and absolutely fell in love with the style.
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: I suck at plots. Is there a way to sort of train oneself to think of creative plots, specifically in scifi? I'm pretty good in the writing department as far as prose, it's just that I'll
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: How do you connect a non sequitur hook to a novel? A pineapple is walking down a street, but here’s the kicker: he’s completely naked. That was a non sequitur hook I thought of.
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: Can anyone direct me to writers' resources on AI or robotic ethics? I am in the process of writing a science fiction novel that will involve a large quantity and variety of synthetic life
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: Will science fiction as a genre ever go the way of the western? It is a fairly undisputed fact that the genre of western fiction has had a declining audience for decades. The Western Writers
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: How far into a speculative novel should one go before introducing the central conflict? By speculative, I mean mostly science fiction, fantasy or intrigue. For example Neal Stephenson's Anathem,
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: Is calling this process a "convergence" accurate and clear? I planning to write about the convergence of our real world and the computer reality world. My plan to develop on this idea is to
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: My story portrays a process, not a conflict - how do I make the process my focus? My current WiP is a science-fiction piece which is less about characters coping with a particular problem,
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: How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money Disclaimer: English isn't my native language. A while back, I posted this and this. I got... well, reviews.
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: How to distinguish if a novel is science fiction or fantasy? Through the process of writing my novel, I've found that I really don't know where it fits in the written realm. I believe I should
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: Should my story's main obstacle be secret or common knowledge to the society? I'm writing a teen dystopian adventure/thriller/romance novel. I've been thinking about the plot for awhile. I've got
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: Cutting down on paragraph size As a novice writer of fourteen, I've tried a few attempts at science fiction (military science fiction, to be specific), and of course my writing's got HUGE mistakes
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: Spiritual elements in a science-fiction novel Does using unexplained spiritual elements (soul, "spiritual"/non-physical beings, afterlife, God, etc.) in a story with a futuristic setting make it science
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: A cross-[What] kind of romance? In the scientific taxonomy of Living Things, you have: Life Domain Kingdom Phylum Class etc. down to Species, and maybe thence to Breed. If I were talking about
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: Inventing names for Sci-Fi characters How can I invent names for fictional characters in a future-setting Sci-Fi story so they won't be connected to any existing culture? I considered the following
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: How can I convey dates (with ordering) for events happening under different dating systems, e.g. a Sci-Fi story spread over the galaxy? So I want to write a Sci-Fi where humans have spread
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: How should I introduce new and complex technologies or tools? I'm writing a Science Fiction book. While this book doesn't push reality very far, there are some new technologies and tools that
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: Avoid blending Fantasy and Sci Fi In the world I'm writing, there's a decent amount of magic - mages, spells, healing, etc. There's also a few aspects - hoverboards, strength/speed enhancing
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: How much can I talk about other people's works? Let's say I'm writing a novel set in the future, clearly on Earth, with all the history that has happened through today. Obviously in the real
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: How can I dig conflict out of an optimistic SF-nal premise? I frequently have ideas for what could be called "optimistic" science-fiction premises - imaginary technological or social changes which
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: Can Readers Relate to a Book without Humans? I've been working on a story idea for a few years now, during which I designed a world (fantasy-based) in which it would take place. The thing
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: Research about science fiction readers? Has research been done (at any level) that gives demographic and other statistical information about the readers of science fiction? I'm curious about age,
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: For Sci-Fi books, what is the purchasing split between regular and ebooks? I can get the data for ALL books. But can anyone direct me to regular/ebook purchasing data broken down by genre
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: What are the pros and cons of building the setting before the characters and story I have a science-fiction setting I have been kicking around for sometime, but I am not sure how to go about
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: Best way to convey an immediate change of scenery Okay, bear with me. Think of it like this: My character is stuck in an situation whereby every time he sleeps, he wakes up at a different
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: What are the 3 all-time best-sellers in each genre? NOT your personal favorites (subjective)! The best-sellers (objective). Group book series together. Anyone know? Educated guesses are OK,
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