This is one reason that I'm not sure that my novels count as "hard". Uplifted Dogs certainly are compatible with the laws of physics. A very very complicated piece of software that seems self-aware is also compatible ...but the anti-gravity drive? Well, it's not full on magic
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3/ It obeys conservation of energy laws and a few other constraints. On the other hand, it is not compatible with a few things that we think we know about physics. Now, I've got reasons for that, and they'll be explained in 3 & 4 ... but it still is dodgy, and may disqualify
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4/ Misha and I are on the same page here (motte and bailey ! )https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1121529563539017733 …
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5/ see previous but if so ONLY one ; two is right out https://twitter.com/DeanBradleySFF/status/1121529655897526272 …
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6/ "worth it" you've got the sign bit flipped there, bucko! https://twitter.com/SteveSkojec/status/1121529470072963072 …
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7/ Great literature, but not hard SF. FTL is right out. Psionics / overview of history: again, right out. Force fields? Third strike. Finally, the calories for a worm to push through sand are really really hard to justify. https://twitter.com/SpaceAgeCowboy/status/1121529437756055553 …
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8/ On the one hand, I don't think of the Expanse as hard SF ... but on the other, nothing in book 1 is incompatible w physics as we know it (fusion drives, nanotech ... and that's it, right?)https://twitter.com/Zacnaloen/status/1121529321842270209 …
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9/ I'm happy to lump Dune into the mainstream of SF. I don't feel the need to pigeon hole every particular piece, like a 19 year old declaring that this band is "shoe gaze", but that other one is "neo post-punk" or whatever. https://twitter.com/SpaceAgeCowboy/status/1121530426185662464 …
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Hard scifi does sometimes have that stuff but it acknowledges when it occurs that according to their own rules it makes zero sense and they don't get it. I'd use the expanse as an example of this.
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FTP isn't science fiction, it's science dystopia.
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