Though their presence doesn't make a story more rational, this community highly enjoys them. Presence of these particular features is not necessary: overall impression of the work is more important.Īdjacent tropes: Rational stories tend to include certain narrative elements. Thoughtful worldbuilding: the fictional world follows known, consistent rules, as a consequence of rational background characters exploring it or building realistic social structures. This is a feature of rationalist fiction, a subcategory of rational fiction. Intellectual pay-off: the story's climax features a satisfying intelligent solution to its problems.Īspiring rationalism: the story heavily focuses on characters' thinking, or their attempts to improve their reasoning abilities. Highly-rational fiction could include one or more of the following features:įocus on intelligent characters solving problems through creative applications of their knowledge and resources.Įxamination of goals and motives: the story makes reasons behind characters' decisions clear. In highly-rational fiction, realistic intellectual agency is put above established literary tropes, and all other aspects of the narrative.
It describes the extent to which the work explores thoughtful behaviour of people in honest pursuit of their goals, as well as consequences of their behaviour on the fictional world or the story's plot. "Rationality" is a specific quality of any fictional work, independent of genres and settings. A general description of the genre and a listing of major works can be found on the TVTropes page or our excellent wiki. A subreddit dedicated to the discussion of works of rational and rationalist fiction.
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