Sunday, July 13, 2014

What The Best Sci Fi Books Should Try To Do Away

By Marylou Forbes


People who love to read will normally go for science fictions and fantasy genres. This is most likely because anything can happen in these stories. As long as the author makes the idea seem plausible, then it is a good story to pursue. It does not even matter if there are rules or no rules being followed for it.

However, there should be benefits in breaking the rules. Instead of following the normal conventions for your stories, you might want to break the rules a bit so that you can tell a fascinating story. Here are some of those normal rules in the best sci fi books that you should try to break when you are writing this story.

When you are writing, you might want to take out the third party omniscient part of your story. Third party omniscient refers to that which allows the readers to peek through what the characters are thinking. Instead of opening up the character's minds bare for the world to see, you just have to do away with that narrative.

Infodumps are actually common with the science fiction genre but it should be avoided. If possible, you should avoid having to right technical schematics and even backstories that overload the information dump of your readers. It will just bore them out if you go ahead with this kind of style.

It is also a good idea to break the idea that fantasies always have a trilogy. Or a fourth book, for that matter. It is actually interesting to find a book that is completed in just one book. Even if it is a science fiction or a fantasy story with a good premise behind it, you should still consider one book for all.

The plot should be created without having to rely on portals. This basically means that the protagonist should not always be in situations where he suddenly falls into a portal, he suddently finds an open pathway leading to a new world, or other similar situations. There are enough of that going around in the bookstores these days.

Space travels or light travels should also be taken away of the common plot for science fiction plots. Of course, it is definitely awesome to warp speed or to jump into hyperspace. However, there is a bit less realism in there. It might be exciting to go for space travels but the charm has already worn off after being used in lots of science fictions these days.

Magic is a very common element with fantasy and science fiction genres. If you can, you should make sure to avoid using the said element to the story you are making. You should write the science fictions or the fantasy stories without having to rely heavily on the magic or power of legendary people to make your world go round.

It is actually rare in the past to find stories written in the present tense. This is mostly because most of the writers think that it is really disconcerting to have present tense in stories. You can break this rule as much as any other rule for writing science fiction. If you can make it work, then go ahead with this.




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