Mixing Science and Magic?
• ScF versus Fantasy Q. What is Soft Science Fiction? A. Soft Science Fiction is more concerned with “Soft Science” and Sociological and even Anthropological projection, particularly as regards the profound impact of technology, or any other driver of change, upon society and the individual, even carrying extrapolation into the fabric of daily life, motivation towards unique and different levels of conflict of society into the fictional future, or whatever other setting, no less than in historical fiction or topical stories from current events. How literacy made us all forgetful, the pill turned us into big sluts, and the cure for aging will bring forth deathless generations innocent of the agony of loss. Just for example… • Hard versus soft ScF Q. What is Speculative Fiction? A. Usually, though all however partaking of some speculative element, that which is categorized as speculative fiction is distinguished from Science Fiction, not just Hard Science Fiction but by finer distincti
