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No such thing! Soft | No such thing! Soft sci-fi is an undefined term that does not fit into the lattice of genre assessment. | ||
But since some people are painfully slow in realizing that | But since some people are painfully slow in realizing that science fiction is more related to the fantasy genre than any scientific publication, the term might be thrown around to describe the opposite of [[Hard science fiction]] when what is really meant is any science fiction without the restrictions of "hard" science. | ||
If you really want, here is an example, Dr. Who. | If one were to brave the impossible challenge to devise a comprehensive overview of genres in fiction, hard sci-fi would be a subcategory of science fiction, not its opposite. | ||
A possible way to describe it is "a story where the science is informed by the fiction." | |||
If you really want, here is an example, Dr. Who. There. Happy now? Good. | |||
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Revision as of 04:24, 2 January 2016
No such thing! Soft sci-fi is an undefined term that does not fit into the lattice of genre assessment.
But since some people are painfully slow in realizing that science fiction is more related to the fantasy genre than any scientific publication, the term might be thrown around to describe the opposite of Hard science fiction when what is really meant is any science fiction without the restrictions of "hard" science.
If one were to brave the impossible challenge to devise a comprehensive overview of genres in fiction, hard sci-fi would be a subcategory of science fiction, not its opposite.
A possible way to describe it is "a story where the science is informed by the fiction."
If you really want, here is an example, Dr. Who. There. Happy now? Good.