Star Wars is SF. Mission of Gravity is SF. They are different kinds of SF. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1488601681348599808 …
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4/ If you want hard science fiction, you know where to find it (and what to call it). You can rage rage rage that the entire world is using the wrong phrase...but I'm a descriptivist about language. "science fiction" means what people mean when they say "science fiction".
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5/ the label "science fiction" is more about aesthetics than anything else to answer your question, we'd have to ask 100 readers and see what they say definition by enumeration sucks, but sometimes it's all we've got https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1488653743105134596 …
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7/ labels should be tools to understanding, IMO "science fiction" means one thing to the broad public, but autists can quibble about the boundaries rather than debate if something is or isn't SF, I'd say "it's SF" and then dig down into subgenres >>>https://twitter.com/Based_Jedi/status/1488656695287066627 …
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8/ "my novel is level 7 SF on the
@KarlKGallagher hardness scale with One Big Thing, generally off in the direction of a Niven and Pournelle procedural in style but with the political stance of mid career Heinlein, and dragging in side topics like 1/16th of a Stephenson"Show this thread -
9/ 100% agreed ...and "marketing" doesn't just mean "sleazy advertising copy" ; it means communicating information to let people buy a product that will make them happy.https://twitter.com/KarlKGallagher/status/1488658322945462280 …
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I just started reading some OLD and not very sciencey SF with the John Carter Barsoom series by ERB.
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Dune goes into it very briefly but from what I remember a lot of it isn't accurate. I'm pretty sure a stillsuit would roast you I think and it doesn't address how miniaturized all the stuff that actually makes it work would be possible. But I am not a scientist.
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There's a bunch of science in there, at least the ones I've read. Dune looks at ecologies and changing them deliberately, including the effects on humans as part of the ecology. 1984 examines how new tech enables oppressive gov't, esp. controlling thought with linguistics.
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Star Wars explores the science of what happens to planets if there are giant battle stations ...

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