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Mildly pissed after reading a story advertised as “science fiction” that literally had no fictional science premise to it. It was just a bad regular story set in the future with a couple of cosmetic props with no plot use. This is bullshit. Don’t do this.
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I’ve tried to read some recent emerging stuff, but it’s tiresome how speculative fiction seems to have been taken over by a narrow kind of wishful ideological pseudo-speculation that displays no real curiosity, only crude moral conceits Very depressing
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I almost think hard vs soft scifi is a useless distinction. There’s only curious and incurious. Often the answer to “what was the writer curious about when writing this?” is “nothing”
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"Hard scifi" often isn't much more plausible than "soft scifi". I was constantly frustrated reading "Three Body Problem" because it went on for pages about technical details on human-powered computers full of horrible design decisions and ignored blatant synchronization problems.
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I recall there also being a part that gave a poor description of Shannon Entropy, and then claimed that a game made their graphics "better" and "more deeply meaningful" by essentially just adding in random noise. Then there was the weird particle physics stuff at the end...