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Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by “Hard SF”?

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Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by “Hard SF”?

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Hal Clement at 100: Five Favorites From a Master of SF

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Why Greg Egan Is Science Fiction’s Next Superstar

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Five Works of Hard Science Fiction That Bypass the Gatekeepers

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SF Novels That Get Special Relativity All Wrong

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Five Worldbuilding Errors That Should Be Banished from SF Forever

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Hard Science, Dizzying Scope: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

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Classic Sci-Fi Star Systems Keep Getting Ruined by Science

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How SciFi Can Solve the Problem of Red Dwarf Stars

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Creator of Worlds: Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

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Cities in Flight: James Blish’s Overlooked Classic

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Tomorrow’s Kin

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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