[ SECRET POST #4719 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4719 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

IA the softer the sci-fi the better

[(Anonymous)]

What is soft or hard Science Fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

Basically, how much you care about scientific and technological accuracy.

Hard science fiction tends to really care about rigor and precision and realism, and is often really interested in working out the effects of technological advancement or scientific speculation. It also tends to focus more on the "hard" sciences, physics etc. Soft science fiction, in contrast, tends to care less about scientific accuracy or rigor, or if something is really possible, and more about whether it's interesting - including a lot of social speculation and things like psychology or sociology or biology, as well as just interesting stories.

There's also space opera-type stuff which is really sort of outside of these categories but w/e

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I love Space Operas.

[(Anonymous)]

Good news, OP, there's a popular franchise called Star Wars.

[(Anonymous)]

ahhhhh cmon what's the point of this

[(Anonymous)]

You get ONE series that is it. D:

[(Anonymous)]

It's just so weird how dismissive it is

[(Anonymous)]

But what if they wanted to watch something good?

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.

[(Anonymous)]

That's an interesting perspective. Personally, I find a lot of sci-fi and their "epic scale" isn't really all that different from warring kingdoms in fantasy. The aliens are usually recognizably humanoid, the problems are still fairly human and relateable, as they'd have to be for a human audience. The accessories are different, yes. But laying siege to a castle or a city vs. a planet doesn't play out that differently in the big picture.

[(Anonymous)]

I love hard sci-fi, but science-fantasy is pretty good if done well. I think my sweet spot is the scale between Mass Effect and Destiny. Star Wars is too much fantasy for me.

[(Anonymous)]

my issue with scifi is that it can be so doggedly plot driven when the story would be better served by being character driven to give it more impact.

big example, Honor Harrington. I literally skip anything that doesn't revolve around Honor herself b/c I don't care and want to find out when Honor does for better emotional immediacy. I have NEVER determined I missed anything by not reading the other political bits w/ characters that aren't Honor and don't interact with Honor.

But this is something that goes back to Asimov and you have a lot of people that go "this is the way scifi is supposed to be written" and it's like... not true. Especially when it does NOT appeal to today's audiences who want character driven, emotionally impactful stories with personal stakes type of stories.

[philstar22]

Agreed. This is where my dad and I differ even though he's the one who got me into scifi in the first place. He loves Honor Harrington and Asimov and hard scifi. I just don't. I'm interested in characters and planets, cultures, alien species.

[(Anonymous)]

You can have all of that with hard sci-fi too. Try some Greg Bear. He is an amazing author.

[philstar22]

Agreed. And you can have a mix too. Star Trek has something for everyone. My dad is more interested in the technology and science aspects while I'm more interested in the different alien cultures, but we both agree that Trek is great.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I agree. The two go hand in hand, it'd be good to see more of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree to disagree.

[meadowphoenix]

i don't see the difference between sci-fi and fantasy as one of scale (especially when BOTH genres are derivative of epic, which you know is the motherload of scale when it comes to genre) and ngl, I'm curious why you do.

tbf, i don't see the difference between sci-fi and fantasy as one of detail or world-building, lmao. one starts from a level of creation or attitude which draws from or builds from our (current or historical) technological and cultural reality...and one doesn't. that's it. that's the difference. when i decide to want one or the other...that's the only detail which distinguishes them. magic being science we haven't deconstructed, etc being my general approach to life.