How do we "fix" science-fiction?
How do we "fix" science-fiction?
Jonathan Clark
Adam Cox
Remove aliens
Remove magic
Remove teleports
Remove FTL
Remove AI
Liam Wood
Leave the utopia/dystopia stuff out, write entertainment not politics
Jace Thompson
the politics is the entertainment
all the best sci fi is politics
everythign else is just a setting to explore the politics
Brandon Jackson
write some interesting politics instead of just reposting shitty modern politics, then.
Star Trek and Star Wars is infinitely more interesting than a grim re-telling of why Communism is bad and Trump is the end of mankind with such bad bigotism and how democracy is going to fail because it's shitty. In other words, futurism and trying to describe or explain a world that doesn't or that might exist, not grinding your sci-fi in modern bullshit that happens to be popular at the time.
Thomas Parker
you could try a more childish style of scifi
let players come up with their own stuff and screw the rules a bit. doing crazy fun shit with the limits of science and the infinite possibiltiies of space, then havign space adventures with cool stuff.
Tyler Johnson
You...you do realize The Original Series of Star Trek was, like, 75% made up of episodes that were allegories for things happening in that moment in time, or which had happened, right? There's literally a Vietnam War episode ("A Private Little War").
Michael Gutierrez
Make science and technology the focus of the story. Explore how a certain fictional advanced technology would shape human civilisation as we know it.
And don't forget to set a compelling, human story against this backdrop.
Isaac Edwards
maybe use new science as the base of your sci-fi concept instead of being stuck with 1960s science?
Jordan Wilson
come on, the corpse of that thread is still warm