I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
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A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.