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Even the hardest of hard-science science-fiction still has to have characters people care about.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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Even the hardest of hard-science science-fiction still has to have characters people care about.
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The daddy of the magazines was Astounding, with its consciously hard-science bent reinforced by the name-change to Analog in 1960.
The Author as Agent of Change Tom Shippey 2011
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An anthology of writings on the subject, published in 1990, counted Sir Arthur C. Clarke as well as Friedman among its contributors, and even hard-science writing on the subject tends to kick into utopian overdrive.
Across the Universe 2009
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As I said, I had been contemplating writing a book about the subject of our partnership with Spirit but had been held up by the lack of hard-science experiments to verify what I knew in my heart and was experiencing in my life: that Spirit is there waiting to help us.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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As I said, I had been contemplating writing a book about the subject of our partnership with Spirit but had been held up by the lack of hard-science experiments to verify what I knew in my heart and was experiencing in my life: that Spirit is there waiting to help us.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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The book is a noble attempt to create a hard-science fiction novel for the young adult market, and Dickinson weaves in quite a bit of hard science to the story, from creating a fairly alien and hostile environment to the travel times of signals.
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REVIEW SUMMARY: A noble attempt to create a hard-science fiction novel for the young adult market.
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REVIEW SUMMARY: A noble attempt to create a hard-science fiction novel for the young adult market.
February 2010 2010
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As Booklist notes: Egan executes … with a mastery of setting and characterization not commonly associated with writing concerned with such ‘hard-science’ subjects as AI.
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