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Originally Posted by Luke King
Personally, I don't like hard sci-fi. For me, reading is about imagination. It's about entering another world. I don't really care if it's implausible, or unlikely. All that matters is that I can suspend disbelief. If I can do that, then I don't care about warp drives and ups and downs in space ships, their layout, the fuel they burn, and so on and so forth.
I don't even know why such details have to appear in a story. If they're not integral to the story (which is about the "people") then they should be left out.
A lot of science fiction written today seems to have forgotten the point. It's fiction.
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Well, not to put too fine a point on it, if all such details are left out, it is no longer science fiction, it is just fiction. In the same way, if you leave out all extraneous historical details, it is no longer historical fiction, it is just fiction.