- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
- Dependent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020