There is some meta-level irony in that this sort of classification is scifi in itself; in reality 90% of stuff labeled as hard scifi is more like soft scifi, an

There is some meta-level irony in that this sort of classification is scifi in itself; in reality 90% of stuff labeled as hard scifi is more like soft scifi, and the distinction between soft scifi and sci fantasy is somewhere between subjective, arbitrary, and contextual.