Science Fiction: What?

Not that I’m an expert on this, but if you’re going to write science fiction, you’re probably going to need to get into the realm of theoretical physics or like topics to provide the science sounding stuff your unscientific world will be based on. This isn’t to say that you need to understand all that complicated stuff that some of the brightest minds today can’t even understand. You’re not going to follow those models anyway. All you need is something that sounds sciencey. We’re talking science fiction here, not science fiction. Remember too that modern technology is getting close to Star Wars in ways that we never imagined it would. To write something as epic as Star Wars, you will have to stay as ahead of modern technology as it was above the technology of its time. Hovercraft are no longer the fancies of dreamers. Think beyond, even if it sounds crazy. Some day it might become a reality. Seriously, even lightsabers are sounding possible now. Maybe you need timesabers. That sounds original.

A timesaber you ask? Well, since I came up with the idea, I should know how it works, right? Well, ahh … Alright, Here’s something I came up with.

“The timesaber was invented some 280 yrs ago by the Chief of micropartical engineering for the star cluster 6H3. Its basic components are a handle and a ‘blade’ which extends out of the handle upon the timesaber being activated. The handle contains a hypoluxanomic generator which charges particles of the rare star dust ‘hythloxide’ to an energy accelerating them beyond the speed of light. At the end of the handle is a circular opening leading directly into the tubular ‘blade’. The interior of the entire saber is a perfect vacuum so that none of the particles has any chance to interact with any matter. The handle and blade are further coated with a substance which so violently repulses the supercharged particles that they never come in contact with its material. At the end of the blade is a sensor. When this sensor comes in contact with its target, it automatically opens up the point of the blade allowing the particles to interact with the target. The particles instantly fill the target but are kept from breaking beyond it by ‘anchor’ particles which surround them. The anchors keep the hythloxide particles in check and they, in return, hold the anchors in from flying away. The hythloxide, being accelerated past the speed of light, has the capability to move back in time relative to its surrounding, but it can only do this if it can interact with other matter. Being supercharged, the hythloxide is not able to interact with itself, and it is unable to interact with any matter in the saber, being repulsed from it. When however the particles are released on their target, they bind to it and cause both of them to travel back in time relative to their surrounding. Since the particles are in a traveling state, they are not able to interact with other particles and therefore cool to a speed lower than light. Consequently they continue to travel back in time relative to their surroundings until they exit time. When they exit time, they no longer have time to precede in relativity to, so they form a black hole and that is the end of them. Since the particles are released from the tip, timesabers are used like rapiers or foils, unlike the primitive light sabers. Timesabers automatically reset after each use, so their wielder is not left unarmed after his first fight. No this wouldn’t really work, but it sounds like it might.

Maybe if what I said actually had anything scientific about it. Anything remotely legitimate was stollen from a discussion I had with a friend who is the one with the scientific genius. I just added some random fancy, and a few scincey sounding words I made up from some greek and latin roots. I really have no scientific skill at all above the lower end of average. Trust me.

What ever impressiveness it may possess is, I assure you, not a result of my science knowledge. No doubt, it is my lack of knowledge in that area which has allowed me to break beyond the bonds of sensibility into the ridiculous, but the gripping.

Yeah, that nuclear stuff is way beyond me. I think the only science I could ever understand was genetics.

I love fantasy and Captain America. Anyway…

I’m writing a futuristic fiction book right now; I’m not sure if it would be science fiction or not. I suppose that is probably what it would be categorized as at a library. Anyway, one thing I’ve thought of are drones; small flying things that can deliver things right to your door…from a fresh doughnut for breakfast to library books and soap.

I think an important thing (like someone above me said) is to make it all seem real. Which will mean the ‘voice’ of the writing acts like it is a given the reader will know what it is talking about (which they don’t, so you have to explain it without really explaining it…if that makes any sense. It isn’t quite as hard as it sounds; well, not all the time).

Also, if the story takes place on earth, it might be cool to reference modern things. Like in my culture 200 years in the future, they don’t use real money. However, at the malls they can buy coins at machines that are kind of like gum ball machines and throw the coins in fountains for fun and for looks…even though the original meaning has long been done away with.