Rezwan, I’m a sci-fi writer and I liked what you said about tying together fiction and reality. In my game writers often make some wild leap into crazily speculative realms – or even beyond. I did that with my time travel novels where the core piece of scientific fiction is a device for travelling into the past. But for the rest, I like to stay as grounded as possible and that means using current science and technology or just-over-the-horizon stuff like focus fusion. In effect, a gradient is established between real, solid science and the wild ideas at the other end. FF gets a lot of good press in my novels. In fact, it saves the world after peak oil hits 🙂
