Re: Hard Sci-fi?

: Remus Shepherd <remus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:  Yeah, the definitions change.  And many of the people arguing are from
: different generations, with different folklore and different exposure to
: sci-fi tropes.  This does not encourage me that the debate will ever
end...

No, I don't mean that the readers expectation changes over time.
I mean that IRL, there are new theories, so if the writer doesn't
incorporate progress, which is fundamentally speculative, then the
a story set futurwards of here isn't realistic.  It's a catch 22,
and thus a notion of "hard SF" that incorporates "what could happen"
has a built-in dynamic tension, almost a self-contradiction.


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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