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Technical literacy

In science fiction books, characters often use technical devices without bothering to understand how they work. This is not a problem for most readers, as they don't know much about modern technology, let alone fictional technology.

However, some authors pay extra attention to technical details, especially those with a technical education. They may describe how non-standard equipment, weapons, or vehicles work, and even invent new technology to build the world of their book around. If readers accept this new technology as real, then other technology in the book is no longer seen as unbelievable.

Occasionally, authors go too far with technical descriptions, making the book uninteresting to those not interested in that area of technology. But when technical details are balanced with the main plot, it increases the believability of the story and improves readers' opinions of the book.

Enwe Martin – The brightest stars

The childhood of human civilization is ending. The united state of people - the Confederation - is at the peak of its prosperity. Of the nearly thirty-nine billion people, thirty still live in the Solar System, seven live in the fifty star systems of the Province Sphere within thirty light years of it. Just over a billion live on hundreds of planets in the Sphere of the Periphery, located at distances from thirty to ninety-five light years. Only tens of millions inhabit the Wilderness and Wild Lands. Nothing foretells the coming changes...

Scythian (Skif) - "The Rise of a Mercenary"

You come from an orphanage - without relatives, connections, money. What awaits you in adult life - a miserable existence or a fast career in local street gangs? But if from the very beginning you set out to achieve success in life, and worked every day to achieve your goal, then in adulthood everything can change for you.

Scythian (Skif) – Born of Heaven

High-quality space science fiction about how to create a successful mercenary squad practically from scratch

Trusov A.S. - Colonist

About the difficult life of an inhabitant of a new planet. Space opera usually talks a lot about colonization, but almost always in the past tense. They like to mention the dispersion, the golden age and the loss of contact with their home world. That is, they immediately place their GGs in a world with a bunch of populated worlds. And here it’s about preparation and colonization itself. The scattering stage, if you will.