1/ Many people have described my novels as "hard science fiction", which I find slightly odd. I fudged things, like energy storage density in gyroscopic batteries, etc. I started out having dates in the novel, but removed them because was too lazy to check all the orbits.
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3/ But I think that has happened is that the ground has shifted under my feet. It used to be that you needed a PhD in physics to really nail the "hard SF" thing.
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4/ ...but in these latter fallen days, everything has gotten crappier, and as long as you don't have a magical bondage lasso that makes people tell the truth, you can claim to be hard SF.
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5/ My take: Once upon a time science fiction had stories based on - and, please stay with me here, this is tricky - "science". Which is why packaging things like this as "science fiction" pisses me off https://www.amazon.com/Book-M-Novel-Peng-Shepherd/dp/0062669605 …pic.twitter.com/mdmv83g1LM
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6/ I have no problem with fantasy and fluff being published. Let a thousand market niches bloom. What I hate is that SF has keen killed and female-written SJW-friendly YA fluff has flensed it and is wearing its skin around like a floppy Stop Making Sense era David Byrne suit.
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"because I skipped some other calculations I didn't earn the "hard" adjective" This is the strangest case of Impostor Syndrome I've ever seen.
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