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The Foundation also had psychic powers, pocket-sized nuclear reactors, and people accurately predicting political events occurring hundreds of years in the futu
by sbierwagen 10y ago
The Foundation also had psychic powers, pocket-sized nuclear reactors, and people accurately predicting political events occurring hundreds of years in the future. Just because Clarke wrote it doesn't mean it's hard SF.
- neaden 10y agoDoes hard sci-fi change over time though? I'm not sure but I would imagine that pocket-sized nuclear reactors for instance were at one time plausible, if the story was written when that was a case is it hard sci-fi? Or does it cease to be hard sci-fi as our understanding of the universe changes?
- mcguire 10y agoAsimov wrote Foundation. To tell the truth, I don't personally consider any SF Asimov wrote to be particularly "hard".
- sbierwagen 10y agoWhoops.