What kind of SiFi are you?

Good question!

Mine would probably be future society, earth based, advanced technology, implants and para-normal. >_> It's kinda hard to settle for just one or two lol

Xenofiction, yeah!

Time travel, sapient dolphins, and the odd alien. And some humans who count as aliens because the viewpoint character is a dolphin.

I'm the one writing a novel-length set of fanfics about a time-travelling dolphin who fights space aliens.

let's see

present through future, aliens, earth-based for the first bit at least, time-travel (minor role).

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Mine's distant future, subservient robots, quite a few technological advances but the majority of the human population is still self-centred and selfish.

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Hmmm...toughy.

Cyber technolgy is a major. Mechs is a must. And time travel to a very small extent. I utilize the fifth dimension. x)

Transhuman, alien, space, bioengineering and FTL. Charles Stross and Niven/Pournelle are overt influences.

Humanoid colonists
Genetic engineering
Exploration
Psionics

.... a whole lot more than that, but that's what the history of my rpg world comes down to. :)
And a lot of breeding.

Mine is majorly Blade Runner influenced. I guess mine would be androids, bio-engineering, cloning kinda, virtual reality.

Mine is kinda influenced by Battlestar Galactica and Firefly, but it's near future, not so high tech, and more focused on the people and not the different science fiction concepts.

Medium-shameless space opera, but with what I hope will be a fairly heavy courtroom focus; it's set after a major war, and the viewpoint character is the defendant in a war crimes trial.

Mine is near future, has to do with 100,000 year old ice cores in Greenland, and an earth-based 'alien' that is simply a condition of the planet (ours) and/or a consequence of wide scale extinctions brought about by human action. No, it's not something buried in the ice per se...it's intelligent water. I figure if the planet (room for God, here, too) can come up with one 'sentient' species (us) why not, in a crunch, switch on another? Survival of the species, etc. The collective species.

May use technology of the ice core drilling projects...so I suppose that pushes me towards a harder SF. I'm more interested in impact on humans, however. Psychological, societal, emotional. MC is 17 and female.

So:

future
'alien'

Extreme technology, genetic experimentations, cloning... It's really based off of Final Fantasy VII, though there really hasn't been any real references yet besides the fact my little six year old heroine is running around in the slums of Midgar... Anyway, I think the only thing that has been mentioned was the technology.

Military/political science ficiton, inspired greatly by Legends of the Galactic Heroes (look it up)

Future society, overpopulation, almost all plants/animals extinct.

This time, Near-future and Cyberpunk. MC by the time it's all over is 32, going on 90. To start him, I looked at my s-y/o nepheew, and did Bad Things to the people around him. Rather a remarkable change.

The first we see of him, mind, is his demise-in-progress

This time, Near-future and Cyberpunk. MC by the time it's all over is 32, going on 90. To start him, I looked at my six-y/o nephew, and did Bad Things to the people around him. Rather a remarkable change.

The first we see of him, mind, is his demise-in-progress.

Here: not terribly SF ... it's 100 years from now; there's some cybertech with the possibility of space travel looming, and there's two or three experimental cyborgs that exist. But it's just as much dystopian, mystery, and romance as there is sci-fi. Probably more. But I had to pick something. It's very derivative--I admit it--I'm a hack whose gift is taking someone else's bones and putting flesh on them. However, in my mind there's nothing wrong with being a hack. If it weren't for us, there would be a grand total of about nineteen novels a year published worldwide. Besides, I've already written my original work of genius on which my reputation (if any or at all) will rest. So there too.

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Bio-enginerring
Cyberpunk
mild-arcane elements (through technology, of course)

Dystopic, dirty...

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Near-future Earth analogue; scientific experiments, conspiracies, endangered trees, and anything else I can fit in.

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Not too distant dystopian future earth, genetic experiments and climate changes, couldn't really decide on just one. This is going to be fun, if I can only get more of a plot going.

Hmm...that's kind of hard...paranormal, I guess? Not really sure where it fits...lol.

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Hmmm... I'd say the SF components are deep space, aliens, exploration, discovery.
The sociological components overlap, but the serial killer bit could come from any age or genre.

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Well I'd have to say mine is military, socialist, alien and epic...Basically I deal with a war between human colonists and aliens, but I used this as a way to introduce all sorts of other deep ideas.

Huuurrr, mine can bearly count as scifi really =/

future society, human evolution, advanced tech, ww4

I think thats it.

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Space Opera

Mine would be present day alternate history filled with metahumans.

I'm a mishmash of all kinds of things. XD Not too distant future, cloning, bio-engineering, paranormal, and on and on. XD

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Set in the future (not sure how far yet), dystopian, genetic engineering, some cyberpunk, some militaristic. Probably more stuff to be tossed in, as right now I'm sort of just thinking it up/writing as I go.

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fantasy-sci-fi ???

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I'm a big fan of dystopia...I think it's better to look at the future of problems we never solve than make it all sun-shinny happy without explanation of how all those problems were fixed. My novel's going to be about capitalism gone crazy and the final solution in home entertainemt. I was influeced by Gibson and Jetter, and an old movie I once saw called Brazil.

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