Image: Bruce Rolff
For me, one of the more fun things about writing science fiction stories is the opportunity to develop the future science and technology that supports the narrative. This usually starts with reading a new science paper online or a popular explanation of new science in a magazine or scientific paper. Often, I will start a story to explicate that science. I will extrapolate in the story with the goal of making the science and technology fascinating and plausible.
No matter how far I extrapolate I always try to keep it consistent. I try not to just invent a technology from nothing but try to develop it and extend it in a natural, logical manner.
Across the whole of the Future Chron Universe, I postulated quite a bit of future science and technology. I kept notes and presented many of these notes, polished for publication, in the stories. But sometimes the development of the science was in the narrative and not in a separate file. I eventually wanted to assemble all these notes into one book or file and the link below is the result, so far.
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