#9161574, By orpheus Recommend me a hard sci-fi

  • orpheus 17 Nov 2012 22:57:55 779 posts
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    darkmorgado wrote:

    Soft science fiction = Star Trek
    Hard Science Fiction = Asimov
    HAHAHAHA you gotta be fucking kidding me. Asimov, for all his robot laws and psychohistory is categorically *not* 'hard' sci fi. Virtually nothing from that period is; 'hard' sci fi is authors like Reynolds, Peter Watts etc that, as you say, deals with or includes/does not shy away from hard science like physics/biology etc.

    'Soft' sci fi is also not stuff that deals with 'soft' sciences - it's stuff like Asimov, like Kevin J Anderson etc, where stardrives just 'work' and aliens all magically speak the same language, can travel billions of light years in a few days etc. Star trek would be a decent example, true, but do get your terminology correct.

    Edited by orpheus at 23:00:54 17-11-2012
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