How Do Story Beats Work Within Science Fiction?

Each genre has 15 to 20 plot beats that are already predetermined. So if you don't hit them, then you're going to have readers of that genre be very unhappy with you. The third rule is you have to transcend those beats. You can't just hit the plot beats. That's necessary, but it's not sufficient in any way. And transcending means two things: One, you twist the beats, you do them in a different way,. And the other way that you transcend isYou express the deeper life philosophy that each genre has.