Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"? Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 16:09:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: Injection-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 16:09:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="19679"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1144 Lines: 10 Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"? Hard SF has never been a unified subgenre. Here are five overlapping varieties of story to which the label applies... https://reactormag.com/defining-our-terms-what-do-we-mean-by-hard-sf/ -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll