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Deliberately provocative. If the technology functions as magic — unexplained, unconstrained, whatever the plot needs — what's the actual distinction, beyond set dressing?
Hard SF vs Soft SF
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Nishant Kumar
Started the club
A standing argument with a book club attached. Bring your physics and bring your feelings. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
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Is soft SF just fantasy in a spacesuit?
Started by Nishant Kumar 1 reply
Sometimes, and that's fine. The Left Hand of Darkness has no interest in propulsion and is one of the most serious thought experiments the genre has produced. The question a book is asking matters more than the vocabulary it asks it in.