People don’t apply near thinking to fiction, especially to technical issues presented in fiction, because most fiction is full of fake detail: words that sound like descriptions if you skim over them, but are actually complete gibberish. This is especially true of science fiction, where many authors insert “technobabble”, which is created by taking words at random from outside the reader’s expected vocabulary.
People don’t apply near thinking to fiction, especially to technical issues presented in fiction, because most fiction is full of fake detail: words that sound like descriptions if you skim over them, but are actually complete gibberish. This is especially true of science fiction, where many authors insert “technobabble”, which is created by taking words at random from outside the reader’s expected vocabulary.