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(DIR) Post #Ak9ddJqsm4dEFV0gcK by FredKiesche@dice.camp
2024-07-21T11:36:50Z
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“Space Opera is the Hard SF version of Bollywood.” (Jonathan Strahan) Not sure if that quote will make it into his upcoming anthology, but it should!
(DIR) Post #AkAme3PUU2iaI5aCem by cmdrSprocket@mathstodon.xyz
2024-07-21T14:44:29Z
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@FredKiesche The "hard" is a bit of a stretch.
(DIR) Post #AkAme4CPY9qkjoTGuO by maxthefox@spacey.space
2024-07-22T00:57:43Z
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@cmdrSprocket @FredKiesche @nyrath You can do both! With my project I basically tried my best to cram the usual space opera setting into a hard SF paradigm.It required a lot of contrivances even if I kept to only one handwavium (FTL). But I got it working.
(DIR) Post #AkEWmtIybNpKvFZFZI by nyrath@spacey.space
2024-07-23T20:32:45Z
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@alan @maxthefox @FredKiesche https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MediaNotes/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness
(DIR) Post #AkEwNmWzFRrrTvoBRg by isaackuo@spacey.space
2024-07-23T21:04:14Z
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@alan @maxthefox @FredKiesche @nyrath I mean the meaning you mean. No FTL, no wormholes, no star-gates. Just plain old known physics, including photons which can communicate across interstellar distances, and all sorts of slower-than-light propulsion methods that can be used to send probes (and crewed spacecraft) across interstellar distances.
(DIR) Post #AkEwNnMk91Gg4S1W7M by isaackuo@spacey.space
2024-07-23T21:07:05Z
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@alan @maxthefox @FredKiesche @nyrath Heck, in my Postcards from Cutty setting, the aliens don't even have fusion reactor technology. (I do not assume fusion reactors are doable.)The alien robot "settlement" on sednoid binary systems rely on lowering mass from the moon to the sednoid for energy. Not exactly the fanciest form of energy, but adequate for their needs.