Q “The careful working out of a self-consistent future history with its technologies and their implications is a sufficiently challenging task that many writers find it convenient to return to the sam background again and again…”
C Writers today are able to begin works of fantasy and science fiction without much conceptual framing and background to their story, because audiences are accustomed to unfamiliar territories in stories.
Q How common is “sharecropping?” Might some of the stories we know and love today actually be sharecropped?