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The setting adheres to the precepts of the Mundane Manifesto, a system of self-imposed restraints similar in spirit to the constraints of ''Dogma '95'' ([http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95:Dogme 95|see here]]) in film. Such settings usually fall rather high on the [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]], but there are exceptions.
 
A quick overview: The Mundanes promise to eschew...
 
* [[Faster -Than -Light Travel]]; space travel is limited to sub-light speeds and is difficult, time consuming, and expensive
* [[Alien Tropes|Space aliens]], unless the connection is distant, difficult, tenuous and expensive -- andexpensive—and they have no FTL travel either
* [[Alternate Universe|Alternative Universes]] interacting with the universe the characters are in.
* [[Functional Magic]]
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... while still providing other instances of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that do not break these rules.
 
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Anime ==
 
* ''[[Appleseed]]''
* ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]''
* ''[[Patlabor]]''
* ''[[Planetes]]''
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== Comic Books ==
 
* The ''[[Tintin]]'' comic-books ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/Destination Moon|Destination Moon]]'' and ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/Explorers on the Moon|Explorers on the Moon]]'' (Yes, really!).
 
== Film ==
 
* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'': The film follows the Manifesto while (ironically) the book by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] does not by (catch this) leaving the events ''more'' ambiguous. Because it's not clear that the events following David Bowman's encounter with the monolith are literally happening or are all just in his head, Kubrick's version slips by, while Clarke's (in which it's clear he's literally transported to other star systems) is more dubious (although the aliens who did it ''are'' [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|sufficiently advanced]]).
** In ''3001: The Final Odyssey'', Clarke [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned the first novel's [[FTL]] travel as being all in Dave Bowman's head.
*** Clarke is ambiguous about whether 2010, 2061 or 3001 retcon anything. In the author's notes for 2061, Clarke indicates that the novels may involve the same characters and the same situations, but the novels do not *necessarily* happen in the same universe. So, either everything's retcons or it's parallel universes. Or we need to talk to Mr Schrodinger about his cat.
* ''[[Outland (Filmfilm)|Outland]]''
* ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]]''
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' series was at least making an effort, at least before [[Executive Meddling]] rejected the original [[Wetware CPU|humans-as-distributed-processors]] explanation as [[Viewers Areare Morons|"too complicated"]] and came up with one that made even less sense. And later Neo's powers working in "reality".
* ''[[Destination Moon]]'' (no relation to the ''[[Tintin]]'' comic aside from the subject matter) and ''[[Project Moonbase]].'' Both these movies had [[Robert A. Heinlein]] as a consultant and were very realistic.
* ''[[Moon Zero Two]],'' 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 [[Artificial Gravity]], which they only inserted because they didn't have enough money to do moon gravity effects for the entire movie.
* ''[[Moon (Film)|Moon]]''
* ''[[War GamesWarGames]]''
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''
* ''[[I Robot]]''
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* There are many, many examples in [[Speculative Fiction]] literature, and indeed many books and short stories were pretty explicitly written to popularise real scientific and technological issues. Some examples have therefore dated badly as [[Science Marches On]]. A very partial list would include:
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]:
** "A Fall Of Moondust"
** ''Imperial Earth''
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]:
** ''[[Rocket Ship Galileo]]''
** ''[[The Rolling Stones (Literaturenovel)|The Rolling Stones]]''
** ''[[The Man Who Sold The Moon]]''
** ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]''
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** ''The Forge of God,'' while there are aliens, they are never seen. Instead we see a robotic [[Horde of Alien Locusts]] that they dispatch to destroy us. The sequel, ''Anvil of Stars,'' is not as adherent, while FTL is still impossible, humans travel between the stars at sublight speeds, and develop [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that borders on [[Functional Magic]].
** ''Darwin's Radio'' and ''Darwin's Children''
* ''Paradises Lost'', a [[Generation Ship]] story by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. No aliens, no faster-than-light travel, just a slow ship full of humans traveling (mostly out of scientific curiosity) towards a distant, possibly habitable planet.
* Nearly all of the science-fiction of [[Michael Crichton]] fits this trope, with Sphere and Timeline being notable exceptions.
 
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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.)
* ''[[Nowhere Man]]''
* ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]]''
* ''[[Space Odyssey: Voyage to The Planets]]''
* ''[[Star Cops]]'' (This BBC series was a pretty good attempt at realistic "High Frontier" SF)
* ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]''
* ''[[Firefly]]'' is probably the best known example on the list.
* ''[[Defying Gravity]]'', although there is some debate about whether or not the ''Antares''' communication system is FTL, even though it is never explicitly stated or even implied to be so. It ''appears'' to be FTL, because characters millions of kilometers away will be carrying on a casual conversation without any time lag, but this may just be for the audience's convenience. The characters could in fact have been waiting around for minutes at a time for their friends to respond to their messages ''offscreen''. On the other hand, it's unclear whether FTL communication is covered by the dogma in the first place (there are several well-known theoretical ways for FTL--evenFTL—even instantaneous--communicationinstantaneous—communication to occur without FTL travel, and they're generally considered to be more plausible than FTL travel).
 
 
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== Video Games ==
 
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]''.
 
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