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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Jun 2018

      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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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Jun 2018

      2/ So in my mind, even though I calculated things like space suit usage duration based on potassium superoxide CO2 scrubbing, and kinetic energy from gravel boats, because I skipped some other calculations I didn't earn the "hard" adjective.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Jun 2018

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Jun 2018

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Jun 2018

      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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        1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 Jun 2018

          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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        2. Leo‏ @ConnerLeo 4 Jun 2018
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          Science fantasy is what Doctor Who is, not science fiction.

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        3. Elam Bend‏ @ElamBend 4 Jun 2018
          Replying to @ConnerLeo @MorlockP

          It’s all non-Tolkien fantasy.

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