im just saying if you pitch me a dystopian novel and describe it like "oh the climate is fucked and corporations have taken over and there's a virus" like you have to explain to me what makes that sci-fi. at this point what makes that different from reality. i'll wait.

In my novel, the racist billionaires really DO go to Mars! Then everybody else lives happily ever after.

Generally, it's the outfits.

Art about a particular time period is really about the period it was made in?

there are... devices everyone carries that.. no, no.... flying robots with cameras that.. no wait hold on...

Climate … virus … corporations and etc, but … the virus was engineered by bio labs in “third world nations” as an act of war against a rich white hegemony. It worked and no one regrets it but now in-world, the characters must deal with the aftermath.

I never specified what the apocalypse was in my book I published in 2020, and I got a review that was “I’d love to read a prequel to know what happened to our world” and it was *so hard* not to respond “*gestures wildly*”

Hello 👋 Christina Are you an author?

Why shouldn't novels be realistic?

It's not speculative fiction if it already happened.

We capitalize random Nouns.