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See my post, just down aways, for a link to one group of authors' collective ideas.

One way to go with what they're proposing is a swing back to the "eco-SF" of the '70s. There's no criterion forcing "hard" SF into outer space, and that (I believe) is part of their point. Another would be to follow in K.S. Robinson's footsteps and write stories with a framework of exploring and settling the Solar System, but extrapolating likely technology from current thinking (as he did).

And, of course, it also depends on what you're thinking of when you say "science fiction". Movies operate on a different level of perception than books, and play to a different audience. I always think of written SF first... but that's usually where filmmakers get their screenplays.

Speaking of which, you forgot the works of Michael Crichton, a master at writing novels that feel like screenplays, then turning them into screenplays himself. Scroll down to the "Novels" list to see just how many.

And someone will undoubtedly adapt yet another Phillip K. Dick story to the screen, any day now...

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