Thing is, I sort of saw The Dry Salvages as hard sf. Certainly, I went to great lengths to get the science/math as right as possible (thank you Larne and Derek!). But what is some people's hard is evidently soft for others. Truthfully, I don't read much contemporary sf. I wnat to read Neal Stephenson, but haven't yet. Mostly, I read 1960s and earlier and the cyberpunk stuff from the late '70s and '80s.
I think that, unfortunately, sf sees itself as progressive, the way some people see science as progressive. So it is not enough to tell "wonder stories." There must be this socially/tech relevant agenda, and I really have no use for it.
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Re: But What About the Cyborgs and Laser Swords?
Date: 2007-06-08 07:33 pm (UTC)Thing is, I sort of saw The Dry Salvages as hard sf. Certainly, I went to great lengths to get the science/math as right as possible (thank you Larne and Derek!). But what is some people's hard is evidently soft for others. Truthfully, I don't read much contemporary sf. I wnat to read Neal Stephenson, but haven't yet. Mostly, I read 1960s and earlier and the cyberpunk stuff from the late '70s and '80s.
I think that, unfortunately, sf sees itself as progressive, the way some people see science as progressive. So it is not enough to tell "wonder stories." There must be this socially/tech relevant agenda, and I really have no use for it.