In today’s episode we give a comprehensive list of the sci-fi tropes that bother us the most. While not all science fiction has an obligation to be speculative, we would like to see more science fiction that avoids certain cliches when it comes to predicting the future. We discuss the following tropes:

The Prometheus Problem

The Boot-in-the-face Dystopia

Societal Regression

Super Now

Isolated technological Advancement

The Lone Inventor

Human Specialness

Primacy of the Real

Unnecessary Anthropomorphism

The Sofalarity

To find out what these terms mean, listen to the episode!

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