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#1 What would be considered scifi in a scifi world?
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:37 pm
by Stofsk
In today's modern world scifi is pretty easy to point to and recognise: anything set in the future, with ray guns, robots, space travel that is common etc. You have the scifi world that is portrayed differently from ours. Perhaps people have chips in their heads that allows them to interface with civic networks, rather than carry a bulky laptop. Perhaps they have different cultural or societal values from us that reflects a changing and evolving world and technology level ie, relaxed cloning laws and similar things.
That's the picture of a scifi world. But what kind of scifi would be posited by that scifi world? For example, we have the likes of Star Trek, Wars, BSG and so on; what would be the equivalent in a scifi world?
#2
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:05 am
by Hotfoot
Depends on the scale of Sci-Fi in the world. I suspect alt-history sci-fi where tech took a different path would be popular, and themes that aren't in the current sci-fi could be lampooned in the society's own science fiction.
Case in point, I am working on a sci-fi setting where humans are the only form of life in the universe (that they're aware of, anyway), so aliens would still be rich in Sci-Fi culture. Since it's a more "hard" sci-fi, galaxy spanning sci-fi like Star Wars would still find purchase. An alt-history sci-fi like Star Trek could also work well.
#3
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:13 am
by Narsil
I suppose, for things like Star Wars and Star Trek, Doctor Who could be construed Sci-Fi. And in a Realistic-to-Science (how very rare they are, but they still exist) Sci-Fi; things like Star Trek and Star Wars could quite possibly be considered Sci-Fi to them.
To the strange occurence of Doctor Who; Anything. The Doctor is, in fact, a HG Wells fan. And a friend of HG Wells at that.
#4
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:03 am
by Batman
You people come up with ideas...
I'd argue that in Trek, Star Wars would still be considered Sci-Fi on account of the scale and tech advantage but given that the AQ people HAVE met civilisation with comparable powers, it may actually be considered 'hard' SciFi.
In the Foundationverse, where humans are the only intelligent life in the galaxy (or at the very least the only intelligent life left except for the robots, which they don't know about) stuff with lots of aliens like Trek and Wars would likely still be SciFi.
#5
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:06 am
by Narsil
Oh, an immediate Edit from the Ghettos: Star Trek is canonically sci-fi to Doctor Who. (Since Rose introduces the Doctor as 'Spock' to Captain Jack, ironic that the Doctor and Spock couldn't be any more different to each-other, but there you go.)
#6
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:08 am
by Batman
Which reminds me:Star Wars is canonically SciFi for SG-1 and the DCU.
#7
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:14 am
by Mayabird
Batman wrote:Which reminds me:Star Wars is canonically SciFi for SG-1 and the DCU.
Star Trek is too for the Stargates. For instance:
"No sir, we can't call it the Enterprise."
#8
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:27 am
by Ali Sama
Batman wrote:Which reminds me:Star Wars is canonically SciFi for SG-1 and the DCU.
ever read the crossover with trek. the best part was nurse chappel calling dr mckoy and both himnad hank mckoy repllying at the same time. lol.