Hard Vs Soft Science Fiction Novels & Stories

Jackson shook his head in response. He looked more haggard than the last time they saw him. More sober, too. But not by much. Well, he was getting up in years. Eva reasoned that time was just starting to bear down on him. “No,” Jackson replied. “Nothing like what you described at all. Not even in concept, honestly. We were always aiming for hard science fiction with Bellum. An unstoppable unknowable unquenchable thing just doesn’t jive with the design. It’d be something you’d see in a soft sci-fi.”

Too much chemistry, really. Nikki and Oliver had the volatile kind of chemistry. The kind that blows up and leaves the earth scorched. It had made for a passionate love life, but nothing comes without a price. And that price was usually paid in emotionally charged arguments. It hadn't been long before they mutually decided to end it and just maintain a business relationship.

"Which is one reason why biology and ecology and sociology and some others have traditionally been called 'soft sciences'. It is because they study things that are difficult or impossible to predict precisely. Turns out, the reason is because they study complex systems. So, complex systems science uses a different set of conceptual and mathematical tools. It is a different ball game entirely. They called it Chaos Theory at first because it applied to things they thought had no order. But it turns out there is an order, it is just so complex, physicists couldn't see it for a long time. So, we live in a chaotic world only in the sense that we live in a complex world." I smiled as I imagined ho

“You know, that’s another thing I don’t get about science fiction. For a genre that’s supposed to be all about technology and progress and the future…why does it always turn out to be a massive disaster whenever somebody tries to do anything or change anything?” “You tell me, Mr. BA Oxon.” “I guess because a lot of genre fiction has its roots in the nineteenth century, when we had more rigid ideas about God and social order. Aaaand check out me sounding like I know what the fuck I’m talking about.” “That’s because you do. Though, for what it’s worth, I don’t think this book is actually saying that. I think it’s more about the complexities of the world and its problems, especially the problem

A caged world Beneath a free sky Everything here Is part of discipline affair Even the car of choice Is one that each one Uses Not the one That most pleases We think like the other We compare to the other Why course books should always be there When each one can think Why thoughts of few Should be counted as only fair It’s not a religious affair To indulge and blame Science as unfair A significance of truth Missing In each stair Religion says nothing But satisfaction After which Who will climb upstair Bounded in free world Where even subject of choice Is trending Who made the word trend Let there be it nowhere Hurt sighing by Religious blows Science moves slow They say in religion A scientis

he folded his arms, leaning back against the mezzanine’s cold railing, “if you’ll remember, I told you three years ago you’d be better off sending Forever War to either TOR, Titan, Baen or Pocket Books, someone with an established name in science fiction.” Gavin shook his glass and looked into it, as if searching for answers there. “Hammer-Fiske has published four science fiction novels in the past five years. They should know how the hell to market my science fiction novel.” Jim sighed. Seemed he’d been doing that a lot lately because Gavin had done nothing but ignore him. “Those other novels were commercial techno-thrillers, video game and television series tie-ins. Not classic, epic space