I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
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