Don't get too hung up on the "hard sf" label. It effectively just means, "The science presented seemed plausible enough to me that it didn't distract or annoy

Don't get too hung up on the "hard sf" label. It effectively just means, "The science presented seemed plausible enough to me that it didn't distract or annoy me." It's entirely personal since we all have different levels of fluency in science, and different levels of tolerance for the dissonance we feel when we read something we know is wrong.