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[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I fall back to my original thought: is well thought sci-fi so hard to achieve nowadays? If seems there is a fixation about misery and destruction nowadays.

considering that mass media will slap a space ship into anything and call it "Science Fiction".... yes, actually. Because they're idiots who will only copy what's already been done because it's a reliable way to make money.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That said, even the masters will fall back on nonsense to make a point. Asimov had coal-powered spacecraft in the Foundation Trilogy to show how technology was slipping backward as if that makes any sense whatsoever.

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 1 day ago

gotta make headway before you start backsliding...

otherwise it's just going the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago