/lit/ - Literature

>>23498446
Anybody who claims a meaningful distinction between "hard" and "soft" SF is a disingenuous faggot. "Science fiction" is really just fantasy for atheist technocrats. It fundamentally deals with things that are impossible and not real. There is no difference between
>"the wizard Gorbulon cast the disintegrate spell to wipe the demon lord Karaziah from this plane of existence"
and
>"Dr. Gorbulon projected the anti-matter beam to disassociate the alien tyrant Karaziah's molecules into 12th-dimensional Kata-space".

"Science" fiction is a story about a Diplodocus hatching, growing up, feeding on cycads and ginkgos, and avoiding Allosaurs until it can join a herd of Diplodocus and reproduce and lay eggs. All that is based on real things that happened because real science has made them known.
"Science fiction" is a story about cloning dinosaurs by extracting blood from mosquitos trapped in amber and replacing the damaged parts of the genome with frog DNA and turning it into a theme park.
"Science" fiction is Space Cowboys with Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones. It depicts a fictitious story about real things that can actually happen.
"Science fiction" is Interstellar by Christopher Nolan. It depicts a fictitious story about fantastic things that mathematicians have conjured up out of their deranged minds.