Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"? Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 15:12:53 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:12:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e1fcbf3acb997df9cd16a123f9c79d34"; logging-data="1110942"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ppaZxRFB3vsr5OMRExpy/8rJwgdfqdbw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:hJxkpbPQtOqvkxHEXe4XMsh+7tI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1460 On 8/5/2024 11:09 AM, James Nicoll wrote: > 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/ "The Martian" by Andy Weir is very hard SF. https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025/ Lynn