(I love "hard" SF in theory, except that most of it has nothing whatsoever to do with science, so "hard" tends to stand in for "meaningless jargon and lack of character development." But argh, argh, I feel SF should so much be the literature of ideas and the nature of what it is to be human, not a bunch of jargon and fluff. This is not incompatible with romance! Also I laugh bitterly at the idea that male SF readers care about the science, given the average level of science in the manly hard SF books.)
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(I love "hard" SF in theory, except that most of it has nothing whatsoever to do with science, so "hard" tends to stand in for "meaningless jargon and lack of character development." But argh, argh, I feel SF should so much be the literature of ideas and the nature of what it is to be human, not a bunch of jargon and fluff. This is not incompatible with romance! Also I laugh bitterly at the idea that male SF readers care about the science, given the average level of science in the manly hard SF books.)