How to Predict the Future for Your Novels: Second Drafts Podcast #16
Channel: Second Drafts
Date: 2016-02-15

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In today's podcast we're continuing where we left off in talking about worldbuilding. This time, however, we're going over how to build a future to make your sci-fi story more plausible.

A lot goes in to creating a believable world, and when you're talking about sci-fi and the future, most of the world building will be in the technology that the people use.

You might think it's easy to introduce some future technology and build the story around it, but there's a lot more to it than that. To make a true, living, breathing future, you need to consider all aspects of the technology and how it will affect society, not just how it influences your characters.

Watch today's podcast to get some tips and tricks you can apply for your stories in the future.

02:19 Technology affects many aspects of society.
07:00 Different sci-fi genres and a sidebar on dystopias and utopias.
10:31 You can leave out explaining some technology, but it's a slippery slope.
14:59 Assume your readers are smarter than you (because they probably are)
23:18 Things can go wrong with technology, and not everyone will want the technology.

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