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AdmiralAsshat 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A Rant About “Technology” (2005)

Half of Star Trek would basically be "magic" by that rubric. I think she reasoned through a problem and conceived of a solution, even if she didn't have the implementation details figured out.

ThrowawayR2 3 months ago | [–]

Star Trek was never described as hard science fiction.

simmerup 3 months ago | [–]

That’s not hard sci-fi though. Something like Stephen Baxter’s work is hard sci-fi, the ansible was just a plot device

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