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

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:54:58 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

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

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

They never even once mentioned that integration and differentiation
are inverses of each other? With various caveats and details, to be
sure.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"