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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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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Simple question for any proposed tech use in a story: Do serious science and engineering folks think it is an attainable goal in the foreseeable future? This tends to set stories within a century of the writing as vast gulfs of time amount to hand waving to excuse magic.
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Not that it necessarily rules out possibilities. Imagine being born in the 15th Century and trying to read 'The hunt For Red October'.
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The epstein drive works by magic as a super efficient fusion engine that just works, but follows the rules otherwise, and everything else human related. They break physics with the protomolecule for fun tho
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how does the protomolecule break physics? I found book 1 so meh I never read more
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Desert planets that aren’t mars like automatically imply “not hard SF.” to me.
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I just began Dune and love it of course, but I am reading it as “social science fiction” along the same lines as Asimov’s Foundation or Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy (love that one so much.)
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