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Old 11-21-2008, 08:14 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
Hard Science Fiction, as opposed to other kinds (and not to suggest the other kinds are any less worthy of reading) has to, imho meet a couple of criteria.

1. Science has to be somehow integral to the plot.
2. The science that is a necessary ingredient to the story has to accurate to the best knowledge of the writer of the story
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Bill
Would you also classify Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (to take a very known example) as Hard SF (or even SF for that matter?)
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