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either:
a) learn about science,
b) teach science,
c) research science,
d) do field practicum such as setting up a study, collect or analyze data,
e) or fight off the jungle i.e. they love experiencing the adventure of new experience.

The reason for doing this is to provide information about the world in a credible manner without boring the reader, otherwise known as info-dumping. If you are critiqued and told you're info-dumping, consider adding a character, robot, computer, or other character that can provide information or argue about it.

Tip 7: Demonstrate a Science Concept or Process
To make a more powerful science fiction story, look at one of the scientific processes and use it to demonstrate how science affects the world. Processes can come from any of the sciences: geology, psychology, biology, economics, etc. and can take place affect an individual, society, world or worlds. Demonstrating a science concept at play in the story can make your story rise above the general statement to be a study of science in the making. It can be one of the most powerful speculations there is, simply by using the rules of logic. Take the case of never true, true only for one case, true given a certain set of restrictions or true always, sometimes can make people question their assumptions.

Tip 8: Include Cool and Creative Use of Technology
This is the easy part for most writers. Technology news hits us from many sources especially if you subscribe to a variety of news papers and magazines. Technology processes in the making can provide fuel for speculations about their application. Technology inventions can be explored and pushed into the future so it's easier, quicker, provides more capabilities etc. The more inventions you have, the more readers will fall into the "gee, I wish I lived there" future society you've developed and thereby turn off their inner critic.

Tip 9: Include Many Fun and Exciting Events
A plot with fun, exciting, and unusual events takes us out of our day-to-day routine and puts us into the realm of having fun. Some everyday events need to be included or people b egin to wonder, where do these people sleep or go to the bathroom or get dirty. But having fun, making your reader guess what will happen next, and leaving open questions that beg an answer is what good entertainment is all about.

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