On Feb 1, 5:56*pm, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:11:49 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

I dream of the day when a good scifi is produced (in this century,
that is) that does not stray from science fact or possibility and is
still entertaining.

In any kind of fiction, including science fiction, you ARE allowed to
stray from fact. That's the very purpose of fiction....

There are three key areas utilizable when doing a science fiction
story:
1. Real, proven science.
2. Speculative science based on reasonable assumption.
3. Pure fantasy.

Hollywood uses 1 and 3, but could still do good stories if only using
1 & 2.