[ SECRET POST #2557 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2557 ⌋

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Comments

[ketita]

Honestly I wouldn't even classify something like The Hunger Games or Marvel stuff as soft sci-fi. That's not sci-fi at all.
Hunger Games is just in a futuristic-ish world with made-up technology. It doesn't even pretend to have science behind it, and I'd never rec it as science fiction. ST is more sci-fi than THG, and that's soft sci-fi, yeah.
Marvel is science-fantasy at best, and a lot of pseudo-science.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, Hunger Games definitely makes the cut as a soft sci-fi. Soft sci-fi is defined as having a premise that plays on the social sciences, this includes political science. So books like George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that play into how government and totalitarian states affect society and how people will react to this oppression count. That means a trilogy like the Hunger Games fits the bill.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly this.

Star Trek was never about the science either, it was all about the social science aspects. (race relations, international relations, the treatment of women) So I don't get how Star Trek counts but Hunger Games doesn't? Except space?

I'd also consider the Marvel movies soft sci fi-- as someone else said the Iron Man suit is plausible, all the asgardians are actually aliens, and you see all kinds of casual technology we don't have yet. It's just more Flash Gordon/Star Wars/pulp magazine/tabloid weird type sci fi than hard sci fi.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Well, that's dumb. Extrapolating from something like reality shows to declare that it results in cultural cancer how Le Guin defined a good chunk of the genre in her introduction for Left Hand of Darkness. If it's not Science Fiction than neither is a good chunk of Lem or Dick.

[hollywood]

Hunger Games is a post-apocalyptic, dystopian scifi. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not scifi.