Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg gives us a compendium of signs that you’re stuck in a soft sci-fi novel. Among the more notable signifiers:
You live in a world where robots masturbate, for some reason.
The ship’s doctor has a drinking problem.
You’re going to have to go through the asteroid belt you’d hoped to avoid at the beginning of this journey.
Everyone living on your space station has forgotten about the importance of crop rotation.