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SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A #54 - April 23, 2023

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Importance of Plausibility in Historical Fiction

Sci-fi writers write me a lot about how plausible something is now Tom the same thing but sometimes you got a plot in mind and say it needs to be good enough. There does need to be some plausibility factor at some point in time yeah almost every famous piece of sci-fi has huge gaping holes into dune so screw suspension of disbelief hopefully people don't get too upset about this one. amen the k2 despot hey is it any thoughts on possibly using magnetic monopoles for mass energy conversion reactors like an oryans arm which is supposedly better than anti-matter and black holes as a power source? I'd have to double check and see what the entry on that

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