/lit/ - Literature

vernor vinge is a math professor, asimov basically wrote about math even tho he was a biochem phd, clarke was publishing nonfiction papers about vacuum tubes and satellites, heinlein was an aeronautics engineer and a navy officer
niven (ringworld, mote in god's eye) also studied math

basically, you cant understand space concepts unless you understand the math and physics behind it
the most important thing about writing fiction is being credible, space operas are read by physics students and future engineers, so the second they notice (and they are guaranteed to notice) your thermodynamics are wonky or your constants wouldnt work or this is not how gasses or metals expand etc etc, suspension of disbelief is ruined and they are likely to go online to brag about finding a flaw too

the first thing i wonder about in your op's picture for example is energy efficiency of this robot, why is it humanoid, what is powering it, how big would batteries alone be, how much does all that metal weighs, etc

>tl;dr
at least make sure you are smart enough for sci fi first, or else you will lose your credibility on a technicality, forget the plot and the characters and world building or any big ideas or themes

>>21301798
My wife's chassis is cute

>>21301798
Have a bump

>>21301798
Anon I made this post on a Sci-Fi thread like a few hours ago, why did you feel the need to make a new thread for it?

didn't read. love them robot girls.

>>21301798
you had 2 separate opportunities to type interstellar correctly. quit writting altogether

brainlets shouldn't attempt to write scifi

>>21303122
This is /lit/, not a beacon of writing.

>>21301798
have a bump, I'll answer more thoroughly when I have time later but
1) I let myself be overwhelmed, it motivates me to learn more and more so that I can worldbuild to the degree I find satisfying
2) character driven, not world-driven - I want an autistically detailed world that simply allows new or different interactions between characters
3)haven't read a good robot protagonist maybe ever

>>21301798
bumpo

murderbot count as a good protagonist?

>>21304098
This is good advice.

>>21301798
Don't. There are 800 million stars in our arm of the galaxy, you'll never be able to worldbuild space the way you can a country or planet. Just focus on your story and the settings your characters are going to travel to

>>21301798
Maybe you could start by getting the spelling of "interstellar" down right

>>21304943
He would if he was an autistic girl watching porn, instead of autistic guy watching soap operas, and had to solve everything with companionship and cuddling. Fuckbot > murderbot

>>21301798
Question:
Do you guys like it when there are lots of things you don't understand in a book? Things that are mentioned by name, but not explained? Especially things about magic and the world order?

Why write scifi? It's all been done before. At least pick a genre that isn't chock full of dreck.

>>21304943
>>21304098
Robots work on pure logic; they do not make mistakes. No human can ever truly relate to a robot - they're just so fucking far beyond us. I would not use a genuine robot as a main character, ever. All my characters who have to interact with a machine intelligence are always a bit terrified of what it might end up doing. Of course, it's set in a supremely distopic universe and the AI was built to ensure that far-flung human civilizations stayed in a constant state of cold-war flux and co-dependence, manipulating trade and creating artificial scarcities as needed to maintain the balance between human groups light-years apart.

>>21306254
I like to be surprised

>>21307131
Want to read a bit of my book and see if it surprises you?

>>21301798

>>21303122
This is /lit/, not /write/

>>21307151
No

>>21301896
shut the fuck up nerd, we're writing stories and not physics papers.

>>21307207
You're a retard, the op was correct in what he said. If you're too retarded to write science fiction, don't attempt to do so. You have to have a thorough understanding of science to do so.

>>21302937
Any robowife kino you recommend?

>>21307923
My wife has no emotion
Not lit I know

>>21307093
>Robots do not make mistakes
Unless they act decisively from incomplete knowledge. That's an express route to evil.

>>21307833
He wasn't right.

I have a question and this thread make sense to post it here

I'm trying to write some shit fantasy lore in English to challenge myself since its not my native language. I'd like to go for a dark fantasy style where a piece of land the size of New York is floating like an island in nothingness. No one knows how or why but that's how it is (everything would be done from the inhabitants' point of view)

This setting should be depressing, people struggling to gather resources in this world, survive against unnatural phenomenons and so on.

Any good books to read or general recommendations for this ? Even short stories.

To give a quick example, Mordheim from the warhammer franchise is a strong starting point for the overall atmosphere I'm trying to create.

>>21301798
I would just do it small scale, focusing on just a couple characters instead of some big action war epic. The Jaunt is a Stephen King short story about teleportation set in the future that's really close to what I'm describing

by 2030 I'm going to be able to do AI generated porn in virtual reality of the woman I was supposed to marry back in 2016 loving fellating me. Mixed feelings about this

>>21309721
No you won't.

>>21308191
That's not /lit/.

>>21311559
Problem?

>>21301896
people like you are why shit scifi like the expanse exists

>>21301896
this. Niven got one detail wearing about the orbital phase of the Ringworld, and he was constantly surrounded by absolute nerds at conventions shouting "Ringworld is Unstable" until he corrected the error in a future edition. If you aren't prepared to deal with that, or ironic filk songs about your scientific errors, it might be best to hold off on hard sci-fi

That being said I'll link you an EXCELLENT resource for this stuff. http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/.. Everything you've ever wanted to know about space travel will be on this site. Use it wisely, and have fun!

>>21309655
disco Elysium

>>21311611
youre acting like the mutts and bugmen faggots of today have that level of autism and interest in science

>>21301896
>>21307833
>>21311611
>you have to know today's Science™ to make good stories about a hypothetical advanced, possibility alien civilization that would obviously have the same scientific understanding besides having better tech.

>>21301896
>it's been 600 years since Earth was made uninhabitable
>we have managed to escape in large numbers
>and we've formed a few isolated colonies on multiple planets
>since then, the technological progress stagnated
>and the secret of producing FTL drives has been lost
>that's why we have to cryogenically freeze ourselves in order to traverse the space
>but there is one place where superior technology can still be sacavenged
There. Just make people recycle spacecrafts and depend on the autopilot big time.

>>21309655
Watch Dark City (1998)