Science Fiction
Legacy, invention, and what the future asks of us.
Science fiction stories live in the space between potential and pressure. These tools are for players and gamemasters who want to explore futures shaped by knowledge, belief, resistance, and change. The fiction might be planetary, intimate, dystopian, or speculative, but the focus stays on people and what they make of their world.
What Science Fiction Means Here
Science fiction is often mistaken for genre dressing. Starships, nanotech, wastelands, and timelines, all set pieces without direction. At Lightspress, science fiction is about how invention intersects with identity. These tools help you create stories where technology, culture, and legacy are in constant friction.
The goal isn’t simulation. It’s narrative clarity. These are not books about loadouts, ship schematics, or system mastery. They’re frameworks for telling stories in futures that feel shaped, personal, and full of pressure.
You can tell stories about resistance movements in decaying empires, research teams caught between ethics and survival, or travelers navigating unfamiliar systems with incomplete maps. You don’t need a tactical manual. You need a reason to care.
How to Use These Tools
These books work with The Simple Approach or your existing sci-fi system. Every tool is modular. The structure helps you explore tone, consequence, and setting pressure without being tied to scale or speed.
These tools work well for:
Post-collapse or legacy-world fiction
Spacefarer crews navigating moral gray zones
Near-future social science and transformation
Quiet speculative fiction with layered meaning
Whether your story takes place on a station, inside a mind, or across systems that no longer speak to one another, these tools help you keep the focus on the fiction that matters.
Science fiction isn’t a prediction. It’s a choice. These tools help you shape the futures your group wants to explore.
