[ SECRET POST #2380 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2380 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/2u2M4Hl.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Who cares if it's inaccurate? Come on! It's science fiction. It doesn't have to be about hard-nosed scientific rigor or anything like that. Make up something that's inaccurate. As long as it works, it really doesn't matter. I mean, for Pete's sake, there's enough scifi series with faster-than-light travel already.

Seriously, though. Hard SF is not the only kind of SF or the only legitimate SF in existence. So don't worry about it if your science fiction doesn't fit into those strictures.

[queerwolf]

This. Write what you want, OP. There is a whole range of sci-fi out there and you'll fit in somewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

I care if it's inaccurate because you can't believe how much old wives tales are being passed around as fact in sci-fi. Like there are people who actually think that we use only 10% of our brains and the rest of the organ is just useless goo because that little myth has popped up in every other sci-fi movie and show. (For example in Heroes and Fringe.)

[writerserenyty]

This; I mean, to be fair there's a lot of people in the SF fandom that JUST want Hard SF where everything's explained and firmly based in science. But if you're writing fanfic for a sci-fi fandom, write what you want.

[(Anonymous)]

Sadly? Try some of the smaller fandoms like Thunderbirds. The BNFs will jump all the hell over you if you get even the slightest scifi thing wrong, like whether or not the hatch is on the left or right of the pilot's chair in the machines. They have people involved who are actual rocket scientists, so if you didn't consult them on it, they will dismiss you flat out as a terrible writer who obviously doesn't care about the craft. It's crazy.

So I'm totally with you, OP.

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Chances are that your readers won't know enough about science to realize that something is entirely infeasible! So relax, and let your imagination go wild -- a lot of the time, that's what sci-fi is.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what research is for.

Besides, it never hurts to crack open a book or hit a science website just cause. You never know what might spark a story.

[(Anonymous)]

I get where you're coming from. I have a soft sci-fi story in the works and whenever I try to think about a believable future (not realistic, mind you, just sell-able) I end up with "no, you are too stupid for this level of thinking."

[cassandraoftroy]

Sounds like you would do well with a canon in which the writers didn't feel a need to do a whole lot of research on the science. IMO, bad science research in sci-fi fic is really only noticeable (or important) when your science falls short of the canon's. Pick a canon that lowers the scientific bar to a place where you're comfortable writing. Then you're just matching the tone of your source material.

May I suggest Red Dwarf? (And I say this as a fan.)

[(Anonymous)]

Me too. Just write about very simple scientific things, you don't have to go all particle physicist on the fic.

Also, it's canon, not cannon. Boom!

[(Anonymous)]

I always prefer it when writers don't attempt too write thing they don't really know. Just keeping the details vage is fine with me.

[(Anonymous)]

I am probably the kind of person you're worried about displeasing-- and I still love wacky sci-fi hi-jinx! I find fic actually succeeds more often when it disregards/makes up its own science than when it tries to be accurate. I find it a lot harder to hand wave human trafficking and consent issues (which fanfic asks me to do alll the tiiime) than i do to just tell myself "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" and roll with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Just buy a gunnery manual and that'll give you all you need to know about cannon. You won't even need to refer to the canon if you stick with the manuals on cannon.

[kallanda_lee]

Make up universes where the science does not need to be explained in detail?

[(Anonymous)]

For such situations technobabble was made. Only powernerds from spacebattles.com worry about sciencey stuff being right in SF, and you don't want to become one of those. Even tvtropers get to look down on those guys. Hell, even furries and navi-kin get to look down on them. Liberate yourself creatively nonny and just make the science fit your stories as you see fit.

[rbhudson]

*canon Sorry, can't help it

[darkmanifest]

Same with me, anon. I know just barely enough science to usually tell the difference between shoddy scifi technobabble and convincing babble with some roots in reality when I read/watch it, but not enough to pull off it off myself. It makes me cringe so hard to look back at some of my attempts at detailed scifi fanfiction, geeh.

[(Anonymous)]

Write space opera or science fantasy. Write something as scientifically accurate as really old Doctor Who or Sid and Marty Kroft tv programs. Just write something that's fun, don't edit it to death, and share it with people.
You're trying to write an interesting story, not an article for Scientific American.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a young boy wearing a conical white hat with the word "DUNCE" written on it. He is wearing dark pants and a short-sleeved shirt with dots on it. He is sitting in front of a school blackboard with the sentence "I will be Good" written over and over in chalk.]

Every time I try and write science fiction fanfiction, I don't stray too much from the science explained in canon. I feel that I don't know enough about science to contribute anything that wouldn't be inaccurate.

[ariakas]

Cannon haven't changed much in the past century or so - OP should be safe. Just stay away from more modern artillery.

[(Anonymous)]

Doing extensive exhaustive research to write scientifically accurate sci-fi was one of the absolutely best and most fulfilling things I have ever done.

You have knowledge that will stay with you for life.

[seventh_seal]

Maybe first spend some time reading extensively before you start writing. You'll learn what you like, what you don't like and hopefully how to spell.

[netbug009]

It's science fiction. Don't worry about it. Half of the canon stuff is inaccurate too. xD

[(Anonymous)]

The thing about sci-fi is that it's still fiction. You can have fun making things up.