Outer Space — Tag Meaning
A setting tag for stories that take place beyond atmosphere — aboard stations, in EVA suits, or adrift between stars. It covers canon space fandoms and AUs alike, trading on the void's twin registers: wonder and isolation.
What to Expect From "Outer Space" Fics
Expect vacuum peril, starfield awe, and the intimacy of small crews surrounded by infinite nothing.
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Spaceships
Stories where the ship itself is home, character, and setting — the Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, or an original freighter with a personality and a leaky coolant line. Shipboard fic thrives on confined quarters, engine-room intimacy, and crews as found family.
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Space Flight
Fics where the act of flying through space matters — launches, daring maneuvers, FTL jumps, and pilots wedded to their ships. It is the verb to Outer Space's noun, foregrounding the journey and the people at the controls.
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Alternate Universe - Space
Launches the cast off-planet into starships, space stations, colony worlds, or scrappy smuggling vessels. Some authors write rigorous science fiction, others want the romance of the void — long watches on a quiet bridge, the ship as a home, the crew as family — and earthbound canons get the biggest transformation from the jump.
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Alternate Universe - Science Fiction
The broad-spectrum SF relocation: cloning facilities, terraforming colonies, AI uprisings, biopunk experiments — anything where speculative technology defines the world. Authors use it when their premise is unmistakably science fiction but doesn't slot neatly into space, cyberpunk, or robot subtags.
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