Sujet : Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF
De : ahasuerus (at) *nospam* email.com (Ahasuerus)
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On 9/21/2024 1:02 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:
I think authors mess up biology quite often in Science Fiction/Fantasy.
[snip]
The other day a PharmD wrote (
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1fj0aon/books_that_feature_speculative_but_accurate/):
> science fiction ... is very sophisticated when it comes to
> engineering, astronomy and physics, but when it comes to
> biochemistry, medicine and pharmacology, I've yet to encounter
> any fiction that gets it right.
My response was:
Are you, by chance, familiar with Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy (
https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/):
> everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge
or the similar Gell-Mann amnesia effect (
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect)?
It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF
Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF