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Sci-Fi - Coggle Diagram
Sci-Fi
Characteristics
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Mind control, telepathy, and telekinesis
Aliens, extraterrestrial lifeforms, and mutants
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Sub Genres
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Supernatural fiction
Sci-fi stories about secret knowledge or hidden abilities that include witchcraft, spiritualism, and psychic abilities.
Utopian fiction
Sci-fi stories about civilizations the authors deem to be perfect, ideal societies. Utopian fiction is often satirical
Dystopian fiction
Sci-fi stories about societies the authors deem to be problematic for things like government rules, poverty, or oppression.
Space opera
Sci-fi stories about societies the authors deem to be problematic for things like government rules, poverty, or oppression.
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Cyberpunk
Sci-fi stories that juxtapose advanced technology with less advanced, broken down society.
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Tips to creating Sci-fi
Draw inspiration for your story from real life. Take an idea from current society and move it a little further down the road. Even if human beings are short-term thinkers, fiction can anticipate and extrapolate into multiple versions of the future.
Do some research. It may seem paradoxical, but research will strengthen your project, no matter how far you end up straying from historical facts. Conducting research too early in the drafting process can sidetrack or slow down the plot, but it’s critical to keep your reader immersed in and believing the world you’ve created. Getting the details wrong can throw off their belief in your story.
Create a set of rules for the world of your novel—and stick to them. Sci-fi is not automatically interesting; it must be made compelling, plausible, and accurate within its own set of rules. Rules add weight to the material or change the stakes for your characters and/or readers. Once you establish a rule, if you break it, you break the illusion of a believable and compelling world.
Keep it grounded in reality. Any technological or fantastical element in sci-fi should have roots in what our current species can already do or is on the road to being able to do.