What Are the Ingredients of Good Science Fiction?
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 at
10:59 am
What Are the Ingredients of Good Science Fiction?
That’s what I’m talking about over at Kirkus Reviews today in an attempt to identify the qualities (beyond the artistic) of good science fiction.
Stop by and let me know what you think!
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What make a good science fiction in terms of ingredients? I will simplify this here. Quality thru the flow of the story itself to express the passion of the writer. Passion tend to bring out the best. For all subgenres in science fiction.
So is the moderation over there very strict? or just slow?
You forgot visual effects:
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2003/10/what-makes-good-science-fiction/
I as intentionally trying to focus on books since that’s their domain.