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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3460275" data-attributes="member: 20741">No. It's terrible advice for both the DM and Sci Fi writer. It's okay advice for the fantasy author - but only to a point.The problem is that SF, in order to work, operates under our laws of reality and physics. You can bend them (a la Star Trek) but you must do so coherently and in a rational and ordered manner.&nbsp; That is the defining characteristic of speculative fiction.Because it is THAT rationality which distinguishes SF from Fantasy. The rules of a fantasy world are not our own.&nbsp; There, a writer is given license to rewrite those rules. But in a SF world they do not have that license. The rules must work and be plausible and consistent - or the reader loses his suspension of disbelief and turns away from the SF tale in disgust.It is that very element which is the heart and soul of the distinction between SF and Fantasy,And it is also why the quote mentioned in the OP's post is 100% dead frickkin wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 3460275, member: 20741"] No. It's terrible advice for both the DM and Sci Fi writer. It's okay advice for the fantasy author - but only to a point. The problem is that SF, in order to work, operates under our laws of reality and physics. You can bend them (a la Star Trek) but you must do so coherently and in a rational and ordered manner. That is the defining characteristic of speculative fiction. Because it is THAT rationality which distinguishes SF from Fantasy. The rules of a fantasy world are not our own. There, a writer is given license to rewrite those rules. But in a SF world they do not have that license. The rules must work and be plausible and consistent - or the reader loses his suspension of disbelief and turns away from the SF tale in disgust. It is that very element which is the heart and soul of the distinction between SF and Fantasy, And it is also why the quote mentioned in the OP's post is 100% dead frickkin wrong. [/QUOTE]

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