Why no sci-fi??

Well, when you're retired you'll have plenty of time to read them

How sciency does fiction have to be to be classed as Sci-Fi? I struggle to write much these days - it's rarely good enough to share. But I would class my story "A Rip in Time" as sci-fi and I might even include "Rodney Tuttle's Science Project", although that is stretching it a bit.

I think stories with time travel are magical and could be considered Sci-Fi. There are good story possibilities set in a time and place where a spanking was a common disciplinary method in the home and at school.

Time travel is absolutely sci fi!. H. G. Wells The Time Machine and the TV show Doctor Who immediately spring to mind.

In my opinion and from the tags given in the library, it's even enough to have a droid in the story for it to reach over the bar to be considered sci-fi. Time travel would definitely be sci-fi.


That's an easy way of turning a "standard" historical spanking story into a sci-fi. You could even write two versions of the same story, depending on if the spankee is a time traveler or belongs in the time period described.


I think you are far too hard on your stories. The ones you've submitted before are absolutely stunning. If what you're holding back is half as good, they are by far good enough for me and would make my day


We have much too few of those here. I'd love to read more stories like my "Interplanetary Customs".

Just realised--the first section of my story "Imagine" is sci-fi. Scientific advances cause disciplinary CP to be re-introduced world-wide, but just for women and girls, and for it to become a subject for academic research and teaching.

Geoffrey Stirling.

@ Seegee
When I think SF, I normally assume space travel.

Thinking about it, VR still is SF since VR is still not real. If my memory doesn't prank me once upon a time I read a story here, where a teacher provides his special student a VR trip back in time where he or she earned him/her-self a spanking.
Since his/her backside had a glow to it afterwards, the winner wasn't sure afterwards if it was VR or a teacher's prank.I
t could be the work of Goodgulf.

Looks promising Geofery, unfortunately it's from way back in 2017, so it doesn't help my problem regarding no submissions in the past two years but mine


Since you only have a vague memory of it, why not just write a story on that theme?

@Moody SF, like Fantasy, is a genre filled with sub genres, and it’s quite wide. Margaret Atwood was horrified when people called The Handmaid’s Tale SF (she later mellowed on this point), because to her SF was space monsters, but it’s so much larger than that. 1984 is SF, as is the book Planet of the Apes (the book and the film are two different thing, the film is based on the book) and imo the book is much better.

@ Seegee
I am aware that SF is not only Star Wars, and I have to admit that there is the Star Trek sub genre with it committed fans.
Some are committed enough that you should consider to commit them too,

As German I generalize allot.
Most Germans would say England when they mean Great Britain.

Which reminds me of the You Tube channel Rob words. In one show (?) he explains why England is called England. It means land of the Angeln. The Angeln were a Germanic tribe from the area what nowadays is called Schleswig-Holstein while the Saxons came from the area of Lower-Saxony. It seems when the Romans left they took the land from the weakened Celtic tribes.While the Angeln more completely committed to their new land the Saxons still had Saxony thus resulting in Anglo-Saxons and not Saxon-Angeln.

Angeln is the German plural of Angel, but the translation into English is not angel. Going from capital letter to lower case letter would be too simple. An Angel is a fishing rod. Refrain from calling Anglo-Saxons, Fishing rod-Saxons please. It might create bad blood.