Started by Drukathi, Mar 24, 2019, 11:08:41 AM
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Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Aug 07, 2019, 12:57:57 PMJust remember who asked me to open this door. The Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardnesshttps://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/11/mohs-scale-science-fiction-hardness/
Quote1. Science in Genre Only: The work is unambiguously set in the literary genre of Science Fiction, but scientific it is not. Applied Phlebotinum is the rule of the day, often of the Nonsensoleum kind, Green Rocks gain New Powers as the Plot Demands, and both Bellisario's Maxim and the MST3K Mantra apply. Works like Futurama, Star Wars, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, The DC and Marvel universes,note and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fall in this class.
Quote4. One Big Lie: Authors of works in this class invent one (or, at most, a very few) counterfactual physical laws and writes a story that explores the implications of these principles.
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 07, 2019, 08:31:41 AMQuote from: [cancerblack] on Aug 06, 2019, 08:36:37 PMQuote from: Perfect-Organism on Aug 06, 2019, 08:08:41 PMIf you can't accept the leap of FTL, then you can't have a hard sci-fi story about exploring another planet (with people rather than robots).That's exactly my understanding of what a purist interpretation of Hard Sci Fi is. I feel it's a very restrictive concept that often treads on the toes of fun storytelling, but that doesn't mean we change the definition, it means we use a different term for the Alien movies.If Alien were hard science fiction, the Nostromo found deadly microbes on Mars or Europa. Everyone got sick and died but there was a survivor at the end. So I agree. It's a very restrictive concept, and I'm glad that the Alien series is not hard science fiction
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Aug 06, 2019, 08:36:37 PMQuote from: Perfect-Organism on Aug 06, 2019, 08:08:41 PMIf you can't accept the leap of FTL, then you can't have a hard sci-fi story about exploring another planet (with people rather than robots).That's exactly my understanding of what a purist interpretation of Hard Sci Fi is. I feel it's a very restrictive concept that often treads on the toes of fun storytelling, but that doesn't mean we change the definition, it means we use a different term for the Alien movies.
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Aug 06, 2019, 08:08:41 PMIf you can't accept the leap of FTL, then you can't have a hard sci-fi story about exploring another planet (with people rather than robots).
