This is a very engaging collection of essays by scientists that will help writers write science fiction better. I was wholly engrossed in the tips and tricks included here. There's a nice variety, even in just the short excerpt, of different voices and techniques, for both researching accurate science and writing scientific situations in a way that most readers can jump into, and in a way that makes your world-building organic rather than clunky or just really, really inaccurate. With science fiction, you want to make sure that a reader's suspension of disbelief can hold throughout the novel; if you can't get the basics right, then you're in trouble. You don't want trained scientists to throw your book across the room in frustration! It was especially useful for myself when examples of science fiction in well-known books and film, good or bad, were included. I'm excited to read more of this collection, because it certainly seems like a good way to improve my writing.
"In other words, they’ll teach you just enough to be dangerous." Awesome!
"In other words, they’ll teach you just enough to be dangerous." Awesome!