Tips for Creating Fictional Technologies When Writing Sci-Fi

When writing science fiction, you might find yourself in a position where you have to create a fictional technology in order to complete the story.

It might be as small as a nanochip or as large as a generation ship, and all things in between.

Get the tech right, and you’ll end up with a better sci-fi story. Get it wrong, and you might lose the reader (especially if they know more about that particular technology than you do).

So, what’s a non-technical science fiction writer to do?

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