March 15th, 2008
Small-town Cataclysm
The settings of great science fiction novels can be classed in two categories: the exotic and the mundane.
The exotic setting is where the author sends or plonks the reader right in the midst of another world or the far future of our world. The mundane setting is where the author describes the familiar world we know, and how something strange or alien impinges on it - whether by means of disaster, invasion or other important change.