Monday, April 5, 2010

Science Fiction

Breaking down science fiction's tropes

Characters
  • Mad scientist
  • The guy who had it right all along
  • The guy who died before the story began (this can also be the right guy above)
  • The Others (robots, aliens...)
  • Creator / Pioneer / Scientist who makes the breakthrough
  • Detective
  • Interspecies (cyborg, human-like animals, animal-like humans...)
  • Corporations / Gov't Agents
  • Hyper-intellectual
  • Bifurcate identities (splits, downloads)
Forces
  • Metagovernment
  • aliens
  • time
  • physics
  • art/artifice
  • marriages/marital problems
  • religion
  • nature
Plots
  • contact
  • espionage
  • apocalypse
  • invasion
  • government conspiracy
  • cold war
  • coming of age
  • starting anew / reset
  • mutation
Other considerations (with lists that go on forever)
  • Setting
  • Rules...

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