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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 13:42:49 -0500
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On 05/08/2024 11.09, 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/

When I say "Hard SF", I mean "a story in which the science, be it right or
wrong, is important to the story. Thus, the Lensmen novels are hard SF, since
inertialess travel, the sunbeam, and passage of Lundmark's Nebula through
the Milky Way having formed the planets of said galaxies, are all important
to the stories. This is so even though we know that none of those are
valid.

As far as footnote 2 is concerned, Ray Bradbury has been quoted as saying
that _Singin' in the Rain_ "[...] is a true-blue old-school science fiction
film [...]". See:
<http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/s/singinintherain_se.shtml>

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
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