Clean Science Fiction

These are short essays written on just a few proposed new ideas for scifi stories.

The contributions are speculative of nature they are pure or clean science by which I mean that they may be plausible but cannot be proved impossible or possible, as yet. The ideas could well manifest with what we know now, and of course we don't consider that which is known to be logically not possible.

Ultimate virtual and total reality

Virtual reality is opposed to actual reality, or then the artificial is opposed to the really real, or “real” reality. We will consider some possibilities:

On the one hand you have this virtual, your artificial reality including total artificial reality, which would be the same as an ultimate virtual reality. These of course are just handy invented terms.

We thus then have actual reality as opposed to virtual reality, or ultimate virtual reality and total artificial must in essence to the person or “soul” be then indistinguishable from the really real.

Time travel and paradox

My other two notes speculate on the idea that time travel (backwards!) might in fact be plausible indeed without all the well-known problems that are obvious contradictions. As far as that goes in essence making possibilities logically sound. Although any idea of making such a machine is at the moment purely fantasy.

Typically such a classical contradiction would be going into the past and assassinating yourself as a baby. What now?

Paperback books

Personally I don't read these kinds of books, novels then, it takes too long and actually I haven't read so many myself and these were mainly classics. This kind of entertainment popular writing is not my thing.

Plots in paperback novels in general also to me seemed more to be according to standard formulas. Nothing wrong with that I guess. You get the same thing these days in the movies your basic scifi plots are very standard varieties of maybe five or so and maximum of ten stories and mix-and-match. Really it's pathetic well still the movies are quite enjoyable. Let's call it escape fiction.

Notes and writing

These are really altogether just four very short essays I don't think I would make a success of a longer project such as a storybook etc.

Thus I have attempted nothing as ambitious as a novel nor even a long short story (except for academic work, a dissertation and a thesis) leaving the fiction stories to other people. I think I wouldn't be any good at it and in any case internet publishing inherently simply works much better as very short stories and poetry.

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A mathematician would write a story as short as possible, in as few words as possible (not as long, as many words as is possible!)