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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
It's fun to go back and read hard SciFi from the 30s to the 50s just to see how much they missed.
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By definition, there is no such thing as "hard SciFi" -- if it's hard, it's SF or Science Fiction, not SciFi.
On the other hand, what Doc Smith wrote was arguably SciFi -- pure space opera -- and nothing even close to hard SF. His books are about as hard as the fluffier Star Trek variants.