# Good science fiction can enable more awesome sci-fi shit [[Good science fiction is self-consistent]] and [[Good science fiction makes second-order predictions and includes nonlinearities]]. [[Self-consistent worlds enable you to draw off of the edge of the map]]. Good science fiction creates a self-consistent world that can enable you to draw off the edge of the map. If the sci-fi world is consistent with the real world, you could conceivably fill in the space between them and have a roadmap for creating awesome sci-fi shit. One way to do this might be by [[Treating Science Fiction as case studies from a future history]]. ### Related * [[Scientists, Engineers, and Economists have the tools to write Good science fiction]]