Mundane SF

A subgenre defined by deliberate constraint: no faster-than-light travel, no aliens, no time machines, no parallel universes — only technologies and futures reachable from present-day science.

The thrill of disciplined foresight, of seeing how human ingenuity and folly play out when the universe's rules are strictly observed. It's the feeling of a plausible future unfolding, where problems are solved through adaptation and ingenuity within realistic constraints, not by magical technological fixes.