How much science do I need to know to write science fiction?

>>9012550
none just make everything up.

Why do you want to write sci-fi if you don't know science? Just write fantasy, or shitty space operas

>>9012550
strictly speaking, none, but these days "hard" science fiction, or science fiction which appears hard has been very successful.
Used to be people could get away with saying Jupiter was home to a planet of aliens and everyone would just go along, but modern audiences know more than back then and seem less willing to suspend their disbelief all the way.

>>9012550
Remember that the best science fiction is neither about science nor fiction.

>>9012550
You don't need knowledge when you have Google.

>>9012550
depends how 'hard' you want to go. but i suggest you to get some background or someone who will catch stupid mistakes like 'aliens breathe neon and are made of laser'

>>9012641
This. Science fiction is about morality and ethics and rigid wooden characters conveying the human experience

>>9012641
Examples?

>>9012677
2001 is not about a spaceship and its inhabitants, but about human evolution.

Blade Runner isn't about someone hunting androids, but about Jesus and father-son relationships.

>>9012708
>Blade Runner

>>9012718
It's the most famous example of a sci-fi movie which plebs fail to understand properly.

>>9012734
>Do androids dream of electric sheep

>>9012660
We, are the Mineral Crystals, we'll always make you say, hey; dropping Earth's Oceans from that height would kill everything, but even if you don't, we'll always fin a way, to make you ... critique our shoddy physics.

>>9012749
Terrible book. The movie is ten-times better.

>>9012791
There is a turtle in the desert. It stands vigil for the allocated two hour vigil over its armor. Is it a knight?

>>9012791
Not true, btw

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>>9012550
Just write your idea in /sci/, let people shit on it and gather the scraps.

According to Plato, you should be a master of what you write for art to not be degenerate, like a soldier writing on war.

>>9012550

the more hard your sci fi the less literary your audience.

>>9012791
When a religious sociopath reads Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

>>9012550
Enough that an actual engineer or scientist will read it and go 'wait a second, that would actually work if I did xyz'

Sci-fi should inspire real-world progress. It fuels the imagination of the people who actually build things

So you don't have to be a scientist, but you should be coming out with some dank ideas that aren't completely scientifically impossible

>>9012647
Except most authors are shit at reading science. 'Hard' science novels aren't popular, only the ones that pretend they are 'hard' science novels.

I doubt anyone here is like Asimov and actually cares about science. Asimove had tons of interests and read a lot, that gave him ideas for the science fiction from the actual science, not coming up with ideas then forking the science into it.
I suggest if you want to write sci-fi, read some decent articles written by people who at least look what they are talking about. Most writers barely understand how A.I. works in real life, today, so how can they imagine new shit when there's already stuff much better than their space civilization out there right now?

The latest RLM was the best one in a while

>>9012550
write it from an average characters' perspective that knows shit about science