SF Tropes Rendered Obsolete by Technology

Tony Peak
7 min readJan 10, 2024
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Science fiction is the genre par excellence when it comes to imagination. Distant worlds, alternate realities, parallel universes, alien species, fantastic technology — SF has it all.

Yet the genre is often guilty of ignoring the advancement of technology in favor of telling a captivating story. Concerning fiction, the story comes first, right? There’s nothing wrong with that — science…

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Tony Peak

Science Fiction & Fantasy author, member of SFWA, HWA, & Planetary Society; represented by Ethan Ellenberg