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Alastair Reynolds: Don’t call it hard science fiction [Quote Of The Day]

Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 by author-unknown

Alastair Reynolds has a PhD in astronomy and has a background in space science — but the Terminal World author doesn’t like to use the term “hard science fiction” to describe his work. Talking to Locus Magazine, he explains:

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Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction [Philosophy]

Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010 by author-unknown

Science fiction takes us out of our own time and place, and confronts us with alien objects as well as incomprehensible future artifacts. By doing this, argues Daniel Rourke, SF brings us closer to seeing things as they really are.
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David Mitchell’s new novel may turn out to be science fiction after all [Books]

Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by author-unknown

After David Mitchell’s brilliant Cloud Atlas included science fiction in its genre mash-up, we were sad to hear his new book was straight-up litfic. But turns out it’s the first volume of a trilogy… that will turn very science fictional.
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