handwavium

I'm the first to admit to the liberal use of handwavium in my stories, but to me magic is the worst kind of handwavium - oh, it's magic, as if that explains everything.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

I'm the first to admit to the liberal use of handwavium in my stories, but to me magic is the worst kind of handwavium - oh, it's magic, as if that explains everything.

Recommend a fantasy novel to someone who doesn't like fantasy. 2009

I was talking to a friend about the TV show Eureka (which I really like, by the way, especially in the first part of S3), and I was saying that they mostly stayed on the side of "good handwavium" for me rather than "bad fake science."

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

Anybody else have some ideas about writing good handwavium vs. bad fake science?

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

I totally agree that language and language change is handled through handwavium (the invisible massless isotope, at that) more than it ought to be, in SF/F writing.

Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon musey_q 2010

I recently reread Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed, which is more-or-less science fiction, but includes some weird stuff about cross-breeding between species from different planets lots of handwavium as well as ruins of a fallen civilization.

Fantastic Settings marycatelli 2010

Maskull travels via handwavium to a distant planet.

Archive 2010-01-01 Karen Burnham 2010

Maskull travels via handwavium to a distant planet.

Philosophy Swirling Around an Exotic Sun Karen Burnham 2010

The claim that rural areas won't be destructively taxed is handwavium at its best.

"George Bush called this the ownership society, but what he really meant was 'you're-on-your-own' society." Ann Althouse 2008

The fictional material handwavium similar to unobtainium is sometimes referred to in situations where the solution requires access to a substance that is probably possible to create, but only by means which would require a great deal of research, development, time, effort, and/or money, none of which the speaker intends to explain at the moment.

Wordly Wise 2007