r/AskScienceFiction
ActiveAsk Science Fiction
**It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself.** Use in-universe knowledge, rules, and common sense to answer the questions. Or as **fanlore.org** calls it [Watsonian, not a Doylist point of view](http://fanlore.org/wiki/Watsonian_vs._Doylist)
Members
866,183
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2011
July 1, 2011
Total posts
210.8K
archived
Total comments
3.1M
archived
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r/AskScienceFiction was created on July 1, 2011.
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