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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Misha Burnett is wising up the rubes.

      interesting thread I agree if we change the phrase "hard SF" to "most SF". Hard SF (WORDS MEAN THINGS!) refers to SF that does not contradict any laws of physics as they're known today. FTP, force fields, and psionics do not occur in hard SF / if they occur the SF is not hard.https://twitter.com/MishaBurnett/status/1121124129757904897 …

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      Misha Burnett is wising up the rubes. @MishaBurnett
      Unpopular Opinion: "Hard SF is just Fantasy that only uses magic that is so cliche that the readers have forgotten it's magic."
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter

      4/ Misha and I are on the same page here (motte and bailey ! )https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1121529563539017733 …

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      Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter @drethelin
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      I like your definition but I’m also prepared to accept “everything is physics compatible except for one fully-realized point of departure”
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

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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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

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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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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

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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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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Chris Baker

          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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          Chris Baker @Zacnaloen
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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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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 25 Apr 2019

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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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