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Hard Science Fiction
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Five Works of Hard Science Fiction That Bypass the Gatekeepers
Five Worldbuilding Errors That Should Be Banished from SF Forever
Hard Science, Dizzying Scope: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
Classic Sci-Fi Star Systems Keep Getting Ruined by Science
How SciFi Can Solve the Problem of Red Dwarf Stars
Creator of Worlds: Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
Cities in Flight: James Blish’s Overlooked Classic
Tomorrow’s Kin
Hard Science Fiction || The aliens have arrived... they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak with the United Nations. They say that their world is so different from Earth, in terms of gravity and atmosphere, that they cannot leave their ship. The population of Earth has erupted in fear and speculation...