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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Well, Campbell gets lots and lots wrong, but the main thing for me is that he uses limitations of sea-going vessels or of aircraft for his spaceships.
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For me, this is a characteristic of "Space Opera", which tends to be more fantasy than fact concerning space travel.
One common "error" in such Space Opera that gives me a chuckle is how the authors have spacecraft "flying around" as if they were aircraft.
These don't disturb me when I know in advance that I'm dealing with Space Opera. They annoy me when the authors work in fantastic and false reasons for the behavior trying to make the story into "hard science".