Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 16:09:31 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?
 
Hard SF has never been a unified subgenre. Here are five overlapping
varieties of story to which the label applies...
 
https://reactormag.com/defining-our-terms-what-do-we-mean-by-hard-sf/

One of the commenters mentioned that he never got the hang of
calculus.

I got first-semester calculus fine, and I got second-semester calculus
fine (both faded away during the intervening six decades), but
calculus itself I never got.

Many years later, I learned that this was because my teachers not only
didn't explain the fundamental thereom to me, they didn't even tell me
that calculus *had* a fundamental thereom.

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