It was another great year at Life the Universe and Everything. These are the notes I took from the panel on writing science fiction.

– you can use the events today to become stories for science fiction. For example, a story of a veteran being a war and he comes home to find his home has changed. So he leves his home to find a new life and in this case. A story of a veteran moving to the frontiers of space to find his new life.
– The new scientist magazine does articles on the developing science that is currently being researched. The articles can make great topics for fiction for inquisitive authors. One article was talking about how sound waves can act as particles. So take the idea from an article and then extrapolate from it to make your story. During this process as yourself how the society respond to this new technology. It will affect society, motivations, and economics.
– Don’t show all the details of the science. If you’re not an expert and you want to present an idea that you don’t really know about, here’s an idea. In the early part of the story present information about a scientific principle that can have all the information completely accurate on it. The reader will see that you know you’re talking about in the science in the early part of the story. They will be more likely to find your idea plausible later in the story with the unexplored science. Think of the science idea as a drop in the pond of the story.
– With how expensive space travel can be. Products shipped into space must be enormously valuable to be worth the transportation to space to make it cost effective
– One challenge in writing the tech components in a story is to avoid information dumps. One way to combat this is that you might just provide the central points of science in a moment of when is needed. And while the characters are doing something. Maybe something has to be explained briefly so that they can be understood why it’s important in being done. The point is to get the information only and not of what is needed and when it is needed. Maybe just have a brief dialogue during an action scene between characters to briefly inform someone about the technology being used
– If you want to use previously created technology such as a lifesaver. And don’t use copyrighted terms that you can use the technology in a different way than a lifesaver, and with a different name.
– Sometimes technology grows beyond its origins. For example, in airplane control technology was created to provide capabilities for flight control centers. it was written decades ago and modified multiple times. The original code has been lost.. There came a point of time when new developers had to create entirely new code to provide stronger capabilities and replace the original code that was lost
– One good way to help with pacing of the story is to enter seen as late as possible, and exit the scene as quickly as possible so that you touch upon a conference just of interesting point without having a lot of talking heads.
– Sources of ideas are not only come from science magazines such as scientist, but you could also consider other magazine articles that can often be found in the library.
– Stories are about people you don’t have to be an expert on science. Even just a cool setting can be the basis of a science fiction story science fiction is near implementation of that. What if question. On a story of technology, ask who benefits and who is hurt by that technology and that can create a story. Technology may even become the source of the conflict in the story.
– Plot idea: have a light javeline (looks like a lifesaver without a handle ) you throw it and where reaches can either sever whatever it hits or creates a form of the plate that can cut to the floor and create a hole as a possible escape rout or can create a path to a different dimension.
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