Anything Can Happen In Your Science Fiction Novel — But It Probably Shouldn’t

When you ’re writing a SF novel , you have none of the budgetary and hardheaded constraint that hinder SF TV show and motion picture . you could have a giant space calamari eat the Moon if you want . There are literally no constraints — except for the need to make sensation , says Monster author A. Lee Martinez :

Just because you could publish something , that does n’t entail you should . The incumbrance of the novelologist is self - control condition . Not just the self - restraint to make yourself write at a reasonable footstep , either . I ’m talking about the power to take a good idea and not use it . Movies and TV have a natural ascendance chemical mechanism . They have budget and time constraint that make some things impractical . The original Star Wars plastic film are infinitely better than the prequels , and it ’s not because of the composition ( which has never been the picture show ’ inviolable point ) . It ’s because the originals were made with a budget , without CGI . Just because someone could imagine it that did n’t intend it could appear on screen . And that made the original Star Wars trilogy stronger versus the prequels , which are overindulgent , so crammed with visuals and ideas that none of them really get the time they merit to get us invested .

[ Orbit Books ]

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