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* Creator/KevinJAnderson's ''Literature/{{Blindfold}}'' largely follows the dogma, the biggest violation would be the presence of a bacterium that, when ingested, temporarily allows for a form of PsychicPowers, although the author tries to explain it in a plausible way (it supposedly boosts a person's electrical perception sense to allow for touch telepathy, since our thoughts are little more than electrical impulses). FTLTravel is absent, and the colony of Atlas is completely on its own, being far enough away from Earth that it takes several decades for a ship to reach it. In fact, there have only been four ships arriving to the planet in the history of the colony, including the original colony ship, a prison transport (the prisoners integrated fairly well into the main population), a warship (sent by a militant Earth government, but the invasion was thwarted), and a missionary vessel. Another ship is expected to arrive within a decade. It's heavily implied that Atlas is humanity's only extrasolar colony due to the massive effort it takes to put together an interstellar mission. Additionally, despite the fact that the colony is several centuries old, it still only covers a fraction of the planet's surface. The colony uses both the FeudalFuture and WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture tropes.
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** The ''RevelationSpace'' series. Travel is limited to slower than light "lighthugger" ships. The universe has aliens, but they are ''thoroughly'' [[StarfishAliens alien]].
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** The ''RevelationSpace'' ''Literature/RevelationSpace'' series. Travel is limited to slower than light "lighthugger" ships. The universe has aliens, but they are ''thoroughly'' [[StarfishAliens alien]].
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* ''Videogame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' uses only modern or near-future / in-development rocket technology, plus a few abandoned rocket programs like the NERVA nuclear rocket. Aside from some rocket performance skewing [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality for the sake of fun]], the game relies on real physics. The only break from the mundane dogma are the Kerbals themselves, who appear as [[BigHeadMode cartoonishly proportioned]] LittleGreenMen. Various {{Game Mod}}s deviate from the dogma, such as the ''Interstellar'' mod introducing an AlcubierreDrive
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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', if you disregard one notable instance involving psionic powers which may or may not qualify as FunctionalMagic.
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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', if you disregard ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is arguably on the dividing line: most of the setting is quite mundane - no FTL, no aliens, no teleportation or time travel...and it is one of very few TV series examples to get the properties of space (e.g. no propagation of sounds in vacuum) right. However, there are several instances preventing it from truly fitting the trope:
** At least one notable instance involving psionic powerswhich (which may or may not qualify as FunctionalMagic.FunctionalMagic)
** Ubiquitous artificial gravity which is ''not'' achieved via rotation and ensuing centrifugal force and whose mechanism is unexplained (the rotation variant is seen on stations, such as Neeska's station, but not on ships)
** Too casual interplanetary travel: while FTL is not possible, so that interstellar travel has to be done with generation ships (that is how the system the series takes place in was originally colonized), and all the space travel is intra-system, it doesn't come off as particularly costly or difficult - which even "mere" interplanetary travel should be.
** While the series is generally quite realistic and plausible as far as tech levels go (KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter, no AIs etc.), some tech items/weapons, like the laser pistol in Heart of Gold, are not very plausible: weapons-grade lasers intended to do more than blind someone should be much larger due to the cooling system required and have an external power supply - they should not look like small handguns (unless materials that are superconductive at room temperature and cigarette-pack sized, but high-capacity power cells have been developed in the verse).
** At least one notable instance involving psionic powers
** Ubiquitous artificial gravity which is ''not'' achieved via rotation and ensuing centrifugal force and whose mechanism is unexplained (the rotation variant is seen on stations, such as Neeska's station, but not on ships)
** Too casual interplanetary travel: while FTL is not possible, so that interstellar travel has to be done with generation ships (that is how the system the series takes place in was originally colonized), and all the space travel is intra-system, it doesn't come off as particularly costly or difficult - which even "mere" interplanetary travel should be.
** While the series is generally quite realistic and plausible as far as tech levels go (KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter, no AIs etc.), some tech items/weapons, like the laser pistol in Heart of Gold, are not very plausible: weapons-grade lasers intended to do more than blind someone should be much larger due to the cooling system required and have an external power supply - they should not look like small handguns (unless materials that are superconductive at room temperature and cigarette-pack sized, but high-capacity power cells have been developed in the verse).
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* ''Videogame/SpaceEngineers'' takes place in the year 2077 and eschews almost all science fiction favorites like shields and FTL; only ArtificialGravity generators remain, an AcceptableBreakFromReality as magnetic boots would severely limit spaceship interior design. SpaceFriction is absent, with only an arbitrary maximum speed which can be raised but with many unintended consequences[[note]]such as breaking the game's collision detection, causing ships at high speed to simply phase through each other instead smashing with [[WreakingHavok glorious results]][[/note]].
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* ''Film/TheMatrix'' series was at least making an effort, at least before ExecutiveMeddling rejected the original [[WetwareCPU humans-as-distributed-processors]] explanation as [[ViewersAreMorons "too complicated"]] and came up with one that made even less sense. And later Neo's powers working in "reality".
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* ''Film/TheMatrix'' ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' series was at least making an effort, at least before ExecutiveMeddling rejected the original [[WetwareCPU humans-as-distributed-processors]] explanation as [[ViewersAreMorons "too complicated"]] and came up with one that made even less sense. And later Neo's powers working in "reality".
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* ''DestinationMoon'' (no relation to the ''{{Tintin}}'' comic aside from the subject matter) and ''ProjectMoonbase.'' Both these movies had Creator/RobertAHeinlein as a consultant and were very realistic.
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* ''Moonbase 3''. (You've probably never heard of this series, have you? Well it aired on the {{BBC}} in the early '70's.)
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* Creator/MikhailAkhmanov and Christopher Nicholas Gilmore's novel ''Literature/CaptainFrenchOrTheQuestForParadise'' largely fits this trope. The biggest offenders here are near-light-speed travel that is described as a form of teleportation, so virtually no time passes for the ship's crew while decades may pass for the outside world, and a one-time medical procedure that turns a human into TheAgeless. Otherwise, most of the other tenets are observed, including the lack of FTL travel, interstellar travel in general being expensive, rare, and time-consuming (from an objective viewpoint, at least) and AbsentAliens. In fact, interstellar travel is so rare that there are hardly more than several hundred starships in existence at the time the novel is set (roughly 20,000 years in the future) despite the presence of thousands of colonies, the vast majority of them being space traders, who represent the only link between the settled worlds (no SubspaceAnsible, and normal lightspeed communication is too expensive and useless to most people), with an occasional one-shot colony ship or a religious sect of some sort who managed to scrape together enough money.
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* The majority of ''Creator/RobertReed'''s novels and short stories follow most or all of the mundane dogma and are generally [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness fairly scientifically hard]]:
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* Nearly all of the science-fiction of MichaelCrichton fits this trope, with Sphere and Timeline being notable exceptions.
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* While the space colony management simulator ''VideoGame/RimWorld'' is set in a far-future setting, technology is restricted to the plausible (if obviously very advanced). FasterThanLightTravel and [[AbsentAliens true aliens]] are noticeably absent.
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* ''MoonZeroTwo,'' a space adventure movie Hammer made in the 70s. It's meticulously realistic, the only thing it has that is a little iffy scientifically is ArtificialGravity, which they only inserted because they didn't have enough money to do moon gravity effects for the entire movie.
* ''Film/{{Moon}}'' has been described as "like ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' except it actually makes sense." It was screened at NASA's Space Center in Houston at the request of one of the professors there, due to its realistic depiction of helium-3 mining.
* ''Film/{{Moon}}'' has been described as "like ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' except it actually makes sense." It was screened at NASA's Space Center in Houston at the request of one of the professors there, due to its realistic depiction of helium-3 mining.
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* ''MoonZeroTwo,'' ''Film/MoonZeroTwo,'' a space adventure movie Hammer made in the 70s. It's meticulously realistic, the only thing it has that is a little iffy scientifically is ArtificialGravity, which they only inserted because they didn't have enough money to do moon gravity effects for the entire movie.
* * ''Film/{{Moon}}'' has been described as "like ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' except it actually makes sense." It was screened at NASA's Space Center in Houston at the request of one of the professors there, due to its realistic depiction of helium-3 mining.
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* ''Literature/{{Existence}}'' is Creator/DavidBrin's take on this trope. Unlike his more famous ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series there's no supertech FTL or psionics, and aliens only appear as [[BrainUploading uploaded]] "Emissaries" in crystalline Artifacts hurled at STL speeds over countless millions of years [[spoiler: and they're all extinct as far as one can tell.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Existence}}'' is Creator/DavidBrin's take on this trope. Unlike his more famous ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series there's no supertech FTL or psionics, and aliens only appear as [[BrainUploading uploaded]] "Emissaries" in crystalline Artifacts hurled at STL speeds over countless millions of years [[spoiler: and they're all extinct as far as one can tell.]]]]
* The majority of ''Creator/RobertReed'''s novels and short stories follow most or all of the mundane dogma and are generally [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness fairly scientifically hard]]:
** The ''Literature/GreatShip'' series has no FTL and the science is ground in modern-day physics. However, aliens are present and fairly common on the [[PlanetSpaceship Great Ship]], albeit very [[StarfishAliens starfishy]], due to the presence of [[LongevityTreatment life-extension]] procedures that make slower-than-light interstellar travel possible.
** ''Literature/SisterAlice''. Bar possibly the presence of SubspaceAnsible tech - it's never made clear if communication is FTL as characters operate in the span of centuries and millenia - and the [[spoiler: climax involving the creation of a new pocket universe]], the technology is fantastic - stellar-sized dark matter machinery - but mundane and ground in known physics.
** ''The Leeshore'' is mundane to the core. FTL is non-existant, and the only fantastic tech shown is the "i-ply" computronium material and its lesser derivatives which are used as a construction material.
* The majority of ''Creator/RobertReed'''s novels and short stories follow most or all of the mundane dogma and are generally [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness fairly scientifically hard]]:
** The ''Literature/GreatShip'' series has no FTL and the science is ground in modern-day physics. However, aliens are present and fairly common on the [[PlanetSpaceship Great Ship]], albeit very [[StarfishAliens starfishy]], due to the presence of [[LongevityTreatment life-extension]] procedures that make slower-than-light interstellar travel possible.
** ''Literature/SisterAlice''. Bar possibly the presence of SubspaceAnsible tech - it's never made clear if communication is FTL as characters operate in the span of centuries and millenia - and the [[spoiler: climax involving the creation of a new pocket universe]], the technology is fantastic - stellar-sized dark matter machinery - but mundane and ground in known physics.
** ''The Leeshore'' is mundane to the core. FTL is non-existant, and the only fantastic tech shown is the "i-ply" computronium material and its lesser derivatives which are used as a construction material.
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* ''Film/{{Moon}}'' has been described as "like ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyseey'' except it actually makes sense." It was screened at NASA's Space Center in Houston at the request of one of the professors there, due to its realistic depiction of helium-3 mining.
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* The ''{{Tintin}}'' comic-books ''Recap/TintinDestinationMoon'' and ''Recap/ExplorersOnTheMoon'' (Yes, really!).
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* ''Literature/{{Existence}}'' is Creator/DavidBrin's take on this trope. Unlike his more famous ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series there's no supertech FTL or psionics, and aliens only appear as [[BrainUploading uploaded]] "Emissaries" in crystalline Artifacts hurled at STL speeds over countless millions of years [[spoiler: and they're all extinct as far as one can tell.]]
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* ''Film/{{Outland}}''
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* Most work by AlastairReynolds. All of his work averts SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay, as he worked for the European Space Agency as an astronomer, and has a doctorate in the same subject.
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* The first couple of seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'', before anything much started happening outside the ship.
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The Battle Tech universe breaks the laws of real life physics in multiple different ways both subtle and blatant (and has both fairly casual FTL travel and communication in any event), so isn\'t actually an example.
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* ''BattleTech'', despite how high tech the Inner Sphere can be, with FTL and armies of mechs. Its has been technologically stagnant due in part that the five houses spent two wars nuking each other where many of their high tech capabilities have been lost.
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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', if you disregard all that psionic powers stuff which may or may not qualify as FunctionalMagic.
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