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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?
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On 6/08/24 06:42, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> 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.

Even though Jack Glass by Adam Roberts would have been just as brilliant
without the importance to the story being the impossibility of FTL being
proven before being contradicted and related, though not important to
the story, were solving the Fermi paradox and explaining champagne
supernovas. In the first part of three, science was crucial to
circumstances as well as to escape from those circumstances.
I had not thought of it as Hard SF but like your definition.