Good luck with it
how does one go about writing a non-contemporary sci-fi novel?
I'm presuming contemporary refers to the genre style, rather than a setting where psychic conspiracies exist, but I could be wrong. Or is it just that it's published recently?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 16 Nov 2023, 21:06,
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Contemporary meaning that it's set now
- rather than in 2120 or something.
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Thu 16 Nov 2023, 21:38,
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Fair enough
Perhaps it’s the dissonance with “sci-fi”. If it’s the completely mundane “now”, then it’s not really sci-fi. And if it’s some sci-fi alternate version of reality, is it really contemporary? Anyway, it’s not a big deal, probably my own subjective interpretation. Hope you get some sales
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 16 Nov 2023, 22:11,
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May I introduce you to Frankenstein, The War of the Worlds, Quatermass or The X Files?
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 0:23,
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I'm perhaps suggesting the word contempory can have multiple intepretations
the war of the worlds was set in a version of hg wells present day 1890s when he wrote it. Is it contemporary sci fi because of that, or no longer contemporary because it's a century old. If I wear a space suit or a tweed suit, is it contemporary fashion by virtue that I'm wearing it in 2023? If setting a novel in 2023 makes it contemporary, even if there's giant alien space chickens living among us, I'm fine with that interpretation. but I would say that sci-fi appeal is that it gives us an alternate to our mundane (or contemporary) reality, and if it doesn't, then how is it sci-fi?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 1:09,
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It occurred at the same time it was wrote, so therefore contemporary
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 7:10,
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what, the martian invasion?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 7:13,
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You don't remember?
You must have been on the memory wipe list
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 9:54,
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just to emphasise the point, I looked up "contemporary fiction" and got three quite different defintions in my first three hits
"Contemporary fiction is the term literary critics use to describe literature written between 1990 and the present." www.masterclass.com/articles/contemporary-fiction
"Books in the contemporary fiction genre are made up of stories that could happen to real people in real settings" book-genres.com/contemporary-fiction-definition/ but then somewhat dubiously lists an Agatha Christie book as an example, but my guess is that sci-fi might be out
"What is contemporary fiction, you ask? Simply put, it's fiction that is set in the present day" www.zuliewrites.com/blog/what-is-contemporary-fiction
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 8:48,
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None of those have aliens in them though
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 9:54,
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So yes - it's fiction that is set in the present day
- but with psychics and super-science stuff in it.
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 16:17,
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cool
my needless splitting hairs, of course, was to garner more attention to your post ;-)
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Nov 2023, 23:25,
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