Hard SF

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 29 Nov 2012, 18:53 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:53:09 -0800
Subject: (urth) Hard SF
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> Exactly. And there's a related subgenre of space opera one could call
> "(military) hardware porn," where the science is totally made up but the
> technology is lovingly described. I don't know any names, but I've flipped
> through a few at my local library. OK, there's post- Ringworld Jerry
> Pournelle . . .
>

This would be people like John Ringo, Eric Flint, etc. The "grand master"
of this, though, is David Weber, and his Honor Harrington metaseries*,
which is actually pretty readable.

--Dan'l

* "metaseries" both because it has books that fit in nonlinearly, and
because it's metastasized.
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