Trapped in SciFi Worlds

As Charles Mingus once said, "You have to improvise from something--you can't improvise from nothing". Inevitably, you need some type of map eventually, as the mind is wont of them.Characters in SciFi are always trapped in the worlds of their creators. In my Reset 2046 story (2013), Chelsea Clinton ran in the general elections of 2024 and 2028 and won both. In the 2040s, people were still injured