I personally prefer the design methodology of the guy on the right. Sci-fi designs are so much more fun when you refuse to use real world logic because there is so much more cool stuff you can do.
Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can’t escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as “magical,” even in the “sufficiently advanced technology” sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI… All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.
No, sci-fi is a genre of fiction that explores big questions about the world, humanity, politics, and ourselves through fictional technology.
Lord of the Rings is Christianity with conlangs. Star Trek is an meditation on what it means to be human and whether problems of the human condition can be solved if we grow wise enough.
I personally prefer the design methodology of the guy on the right. Sci-fi designs are so much more fun when you refuse to use real world logic because there is so much more cool stuff you can do.
Though at that point it stops being sci-fi and becomes space-themed fantasy.
Sci Fi is a flavor of fantasy that favors grounded explainations over magic, yet can’t escape it entirely. In order for something to be sci fi, it must have something in it that can be percieved as “magical,” even in the “sufficiently advanced technology” sense of the word. Jump/warp tech, laser weapons, space warfare in general, most life support concepts, AGI… All magic as far as we know now. Any sci fi without the roots of fantasy is really just modern fiction.
No, sci-fi is a genre of fiction that explores big questions about the world, humanity, politics, and ourselves through fictional technology.
Lord of the Rings is Christianity with conlangs. Star Trek is an meditation on what it means to be human and whether problems of the human condition can be solved if we grow wise enough.
Both are good.