Er, no, on all counts. > But those are not science fiction. Stories based on physics and maths are not science fiction? Are you feeling OK? > If you tell a

Er, no, on all counts. > But those are not science fiction. Stories based on physics and maths are not science fiction? Are you feeling OK? > If you tell a story that is within the limits of what we know to be possible with the knowledge that we have right now, you will end up with a very boring story. Um. Most stories in general stay within reasonable limits of what we know to be possible - are most stories very boring? You basically seem to be arguing that all stories that aren't fantasy are boring, which is clearly untrue. > Interstellar, which makes for a nice story Interstellar is tediously boring rubbish :P > For example, try to write a story where the entire premise is that someone manages to construct an Alcubierre drive. You'd get ...Star Trek: First Contact. What... no? The phase-space of all possible Alcubierre-drive fiction is not "Vulcans come to visit", any more so than the phase-space of all possible stargate fiction is "Ra gets quite angry".