[ SECRET POST #2557 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2557 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

Hah, all the proper hard sf writers got scared out of the genre by the insane assburger fans who kept screaming that every book published wasn't hard enough on the sf and that characters had individual character traits that prevented them from acting like assembly line robots. Blame your own fandom for the writers going to genres that appreciated their talents.

That and they also had to share the hard sf writerdom with Orson Scott Card and the rest of the rabid right homophobes and wingding libertarian tea partiers. No one wanted to be part of the clusterfuck, and no one will again until the house is cleaned out.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeahhhhhh.

Yeah. There's some truth to that.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

That and real hard SF is boring now. Unless we're invoking special types of phlebotinum it is limited to earth orbit or maybe Mars at a push. Even then it would be just people huddling inside huts smaller than most trailer homes, or more likely some short Jewish nerd trying not to crash a rover into a ditch from sixty-two million miles away.

If you are invoking any special phlebotinum for story purposes (so that you can actually have a story), then it is soft sci-fi that neither satisfies the hard sf powernerds nor is soft enough to have actual adventures that will excite the soft sf fans.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. It sucks.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Gernsbackian science fiction has proven largely to be a literary dead end, since it turns out that few people can successfully treat novels like engineering textbooks and come out with something readable. And putting early pulp people like Asimov and Clarke into that model of hard science fiction becomes something of a ridiculous hagiography. (Worse than Tolkien the "world builder.")