Science-fictional shibboleths

[AndrewW]

Let's ignore, for the moment, the point that fiction is an exploration of human interior spaces, and that sometimes a spaceship or a princess is a metaphor; science fiction and fantasy are genres famous for their departure from the plane of mundanity, and usually a spaceship is just a form of transport between inhabited worlds ...

Let me tell you what makes me yell when I kick the tires on an SF/F novel these days.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/12/science-fictional-shibboleths.html

Even a brief mention of Traveller in there at the end.

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

Let's ignore, for the moment, the point that fiction is an exploration of human interior spaces, and that sometimes a spaceship or a princess is a metaphor; science fiction and fantasy are genres famous for their departure from the plane of mundanity, and usually a spaceship is just a form of transport between inhabited worlds ...

Let me tell you what makes me yell when I kick the tires on an SF/F novel these days.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/12/science-fictional-shibboleths.html

Even a brief mention of Traveller in there at the end.

What are the stats for a Shibboleth? On what planets might they be found?

 

[alex_greene]

Why is it a custom to yell when people kick tyres? Is this a thing now? Must make life exciting down at the local KwikFit.