![]() Instead of relying on brevity, hard science stands on realism. Hard science fiction adopts a different approach. ![]() Other technologies play unimportant parts in the overall story, avoiding the deus ex machina tropes of more expansive speculative futures. Dick explore how individual scientific advances affect society and the characters. Clarke, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, and We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (on which Total Recall is based) by Philip K. Timeless short stories like The Last Question and Nightfall by Isaac Asmiov, The Ten Billion Names of God by Arthur C. One approach to avoiding these issues is brevity. Since the in-universe science drives their plots, these stories can rapidly feel dated as real-life technological progress obviates the speculative inventions of yesteryear. ![]() Divergent, The Maze Runner, Jupiter Ascending), or scifi premises shoehorned into action/horror movies with unsatisfactory endings and better special effects than acting (e.g. Bad scifi frequently fills bookshelves and movie theaters: predictable dystopian stories with a “chosen one” protagonist (e.g. ![]() Science fiction is a difficult genre to get right. ![]()
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