Questions tagged [society]
This tag is for the questions about works, usually Sci-Fi, that focus on how something would affect or change a society. This tag can also refer to questions the real societies we live in.
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Story about recording and comparing the "scores" of sexual encounters
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I read an article in the New York Times about a sex toy that monitors sexual arousal and uploads the data to a phone app that can display an arousal curve like an EKG. The curve (allegedly) ...
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A hilarious story where "Cyclists" does not mean what you think
This short fiction (short story or maybe novelette) could only have been written by a woman. I read it more than 10 years ago in a collection, but it is probably much older than that.
A middle age ...
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Has there ever been a depiction of a futurist in Star Wars Legends or Canon?
I love futurism and even though Star Wars is more science-fantasy than sci-fi; they DO have technology and science and scientists are often featured in various stories. Philosophers are also mentioned....
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A short fiction about an oven that did not need fuel
This is either a short story or a "shortish" novelette, I am not sure. I read it about 20 years ago but probably in a collection, so it could be much older.
It happens in a world quite ...
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What is this science fiction short story about sex determined at puberty, and three genders?
I think I read this in a Gardner Dozois Anthology of Best Short Science Fiction Year X. The year would have been 2005 or earlier. The story was about a boy and a girl, about 13 years old initially. ...
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Short science fiction story in which cyborgs are treated equally as humans
Last year I read a science fiction story online, but I forgot the name of the story.
Roughly, the story goes like this:
Imagine, in a futuristic society, where the cyborgs were treated equally as ...
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Is there any fantasy or fiction layout with magic and a Modern Age, Contemporanean Age or further developed society? [closed]
Exactly as the title says.
We are very used to fiction or fantasy with a magic system where the plot develops within a Medieval Age society. However it's very difficult (I haven't found any yet, other ...
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Why do many people live like medieval villagers in a society with ubiquitous advanced technology?
In The Mandalorian, chapter 13:
The walls protecting the village are basic metal. The village itself looks like something out of Game of Thrones. People are dressed like medieval peasants. There are ...
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Looking for a Short Story Title about a Victimizing Society
This story, maybe 1960s or 70s, is about a society where everyone carries a weapon, and people prey on each other. Those who allow themselves to become victims are blamed for being weak. After a ...
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Old story about New York City having become "Black New York"
I ran across this in a science fiction anthology. The book may have had a sociological/political theme. I think I read it somewhere around the late 1990s, but I also think the book was a hardback I ...
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Sci-fi short story about compensation for stress
People have monitors that measure stress levels. If they interact with someone who causes them stress, money is transferred to compensate. Visual indicators allow others to know if they are causing ...
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Club footed man needs testosterone for sons, kills
Looking for a story Where anthropologists study a primitive society, (modeled on New Guinea?) They are befriended by a club footed native with two sons. The native then murders one of his new friends. ...
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Book about escaping dystopia
I am looking for a book for my mum that she can't remember the name of.
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The people lived in pod like rooms.
Fed by pills
Escape by a shoot.
They do that by working out the pods.
Set in the ...
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In Star Trek why is warp speed the ultimate litmus test on "galactic acceptance" of a civilisation?
Why is warp speed and first contact seemingly the most important thing in the Star Trek universe for a civilisation to become "enlightened" and then utopic?
For example, why couldn't the ...
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Earth living standards in the light of the "Cascade"
In the 10th episode of the second season of The Expanse, "Cascade", Gunnery Sergeant Draper ("Gunny") escapes from the MCR embassy on Earth to see the ocean. On the way, she meets some poor Earthers. ...
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