Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
From Edward M. Lerner
The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
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