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I think of Science Fiction as a very broad field with lots of sub genres like hard science fiction where the science is front-and-center and obeys our current u

I think of Science Fiction as a very broad field with lots of sub genres like hard science fiction where the science is front-and-center and obeys our current understanding of physics to space opera that has a grandiose storytelling component and is epic in scale. I don't think any of these are firm categories and many books have aspects of many sub-genres

KineticLensman 3y ago
> I don't think any of these are firm categories and many books have aspects of many sub-genres Agree. Some also vary as they progress. E.g. the Charles Stross 'Merchant Princes' sequence that starts out looking like a portal fantasy (people can jump to parallel worlds by looking at a special pattern) but (mild spoiler) becomes quite hard SF as the mechanisms behind the jumping become understood by the protagonists.