tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38764987.post4843449077981327216..comments2023-07-15T04:20:16.543-05:00Comments on Almost Diamonds: Science and Fiction--Writers Respond #3Stephanie Zvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15182490110208080002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38764987.post-38930883564878919162009-01-10T08:52:00.000-06:002009-01-10T08:52:00.000-06:00Yeah. One of the extra challenges in writing SF is...Yeah. One of the extra challenges in writing SF is writing for an audience that will contain scientists. It's easy to say, "whatever a writer can get right should be right." It's harder to do it, especially when something is set on another planet or in another society where using standard, Earth/U.S., industrialized defaults for anything can mean getting something wrong. <BR/><BR/>I don't know how often I've been pulled out of a story by bad economics, just because it isn't one of the sciences (rudimentary and problematic as it is) to which a writer has given much thought. I don't read as much SF as I used to, because it takes a really good story to pull me back in when I see something like that. But a good story can make up for crappy science. Sometimes.<BR/><BR/>(And yay for SF geeks!)Stephanie Zvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15182490110208080002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38764987.post-8541947266634962822009-01-10T08:31:00.000-06:002009-01-10T08:31:00.000-06:00As a reader, running into clearly wrong science is...As a reader, running into clearly wrong science is like fingernails on a blackboard---unless, in a fantasy-type way, it is clear from the beginning that science won't be an issue. <BR/>But like some of the writers said, all the good science in the world won't make up for a crappy story.<BR/><BR/>(written as someone who had read probably several hundred sf novels by 7th grade)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com