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Mildly pissed after reading a story advertised as “science fiction” that literally had no fictional science premise to it. It was just a bad regular story set in the future with a couple of cosmetic props with no plot use. This is bullshit. Don’t do this.
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I’ve tried to read some recent emerging stuff, but it’s tiresome how speculative fiction seems to have been taken over by a narrow kind of wishful ideological pseudo-speculation that displays no real curiosity, only crude moral conceits Very depressing
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Bad speculative stories often seem to have a clear answer to “what was the writer convinced about from the beginning” that plays the main role in the story. Making it closer to propaganda. Like Ayn Rand type shit.
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Central certainty + no curiosity = guaranteed bad story Central curiosity + marginal certainties = shot at being good
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"Hard scifi" often isn't much more plausible than "soft scifi". I was constantly frustrated reading "Three Body Problem" because it went on for pages about technical details on human-powered computers full of horrible design decisions and ignored blatant synchronization problems.
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