Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in...
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Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...
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Soft science fiction, or soft SF, is a category of science fiction with two different definitions, in contrast to hard science fiction. It explores the...
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limitations of "Hard Science Fiction". The term "science fantasy" was coined in 1935 by critic Forrest J. Ackerman as a synonym for science fiction. In the 1950s...
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similarities to hard science fiction and Ritch Calvin has pointed out MSF's similarities to cyberpunk. Some commentators have identified science fiction films and...
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and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction β a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often...
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rational and knowable world. In this sense, the term is analogous to hard science fiction, from which it draws its name, in that both build their respective...
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The Three-Body Problem (novel) (redirect from Three Body (Science fiction))
Problem (Chinese: δΈδ½; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's...
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The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...
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and encounter exotic aliens. Indeed, one activity associated with hard science fiction is "world building," meticulously crafting bizarre planets that nonetheless...
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Blindsight (Watts novel) (redirect from Blindsight (science fiction novel))
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for best translated novel...
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Mesklin (section Hard science fiction)
his hard science fiction stories, starting with Mission of Gravity (1954). Alongside the novel's original 1953 serialization in Astounding Science Fiction...
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Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology or space opera...
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of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938β1946, was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction...
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science-fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery...
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defining science fiction. This is a list of definitions that have been offered by authors, editors, critics and fans over the years since science fiction became...
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Hardboiled (redirect from Hard-Boiled Fiction)
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir...
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First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first...
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topics. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry). Soft science fiction is based...
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Mickey7 (category Hard science fiction)
Mickey7 is a 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton. Its sequel, Antimatter Blues, was released in March 2023. A film adaptation directed by Bong...
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Space opera (redirect from Science fiction/Space opera)
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and...
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science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet. Science fiction...
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Brandon Sanderson (redirect from Hard and soft magic systems)
Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult books. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional...
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formal sciences and natural sciences are considered hard science, whereas the social sciences and other sciences are described as soft science. Precise...
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This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of...
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anthropologist Leon E. Stover says of science fiction's relationship to anthropology: "Anthropological science fiction enjoys the philosophical luxury of...
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Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine edited by Sheila Williams and published by Dell Magazines, which is owned by Penny Press...
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and planet, and (inter)planetary adventure) is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures...
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disbelief. Rubber science is a feature of most genres of science fiction, with the exception of hard science fiction. The term rubber science was coined by...
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The New Wave was a science fiction style of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by a great degree of experimentation with the form and content of stories...
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