QOTD

[rowyn]

"In the future, everyone is good in bed."

From The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés. (Thanks, makovette!)

Comments

Re: Believe it!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Just think of it as background information. It might not be critical to the way the story runs, or even deserve mention.

Like Star Trek doesn't explain how a phaser works, I don't plan on explaining how a magneto hydro-dynamic turbine engine works, nor a fusion engine. But the technology is there all the same. ;)

Mark Stanley calls this sort of stuff "Under the hood" information. The reader doesn't need to know that there's a superconducting torus being used as a storage battery to run an electric truck. All the reader needs to see is a truck, and will presume that it runs.