History Quotes / MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness

->"Il invente!" ("He makes it up!")

->''From its gaping maw spewed a beam of energy so raw, so horrific, so utterly incomprehensible it could not be described before the advent of hard science fiction.''

-->--WebVideo/DoorMonster, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3sEHu_wQjk&index=48&list=PL0u5ZHidq4X48xzpr-IfP8nHVFhtQfitZ Secret Identity Crisis]].

->''For you information, I have the ability to manipulate gravitons. And it all makes perfect sense if you're intimately familier with quantum field theory, and also not too picky about it.''

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

--> -- '''Ward''', rec.games.frp.{{gurps}}, 5/1/2002

->''Soft SF says "the Go Fast Now drive works because I pressed that red button". Hard SF takes the time to explain things in enough detail that the reader can work for themselves why it is the drive can't possibly work that way.''
--> -- '''[[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/125341.html?thread=8965789#t8965789 James Nicoll]]'''

-->--Attributed to '''Creator/JulesVerne''', regarding the softer science fiction of HGWells.

->''Mind you, anything written by [[EEDocSmith Doc Smith]] tends to be rather light on plausibility. You know what "hard science fiction" is, right? Well, Smith's work is so soft it squishes.''

-->--Attributed to '''JulesVerne''', regarding the softer science fiction of HGWells.

'''Warren:''' IJD. "[[HandWave It Just Does]]".

-->--Attributed to JulesVerne, regarding the softer science fiction of HGWells.

->'''Isaac:''' Interesting. What's the explanation for how it actually works?
->'''Warren:''' The [[FasterThanLightTravel hyperdrive]] utilizes IJD technology.
->'''Isaac:''' Inter...dimensional jump? IDJ?
->'''Warren:''' IJD. "[[HandWave It Just Does]]".

->''Mind you, anything written by Doc Smith tends to be rather light on plausibility. You know what "hard science fiction" is, right? Well, Smith's work is so soft it squishes.''

->Mind you, anything written by Doc Smith tends to be rather light on plausibility. You know what "hard science fiction" is, right? Well, Smith's work is so soft it squishes.
--> -- "Ward", rec.games.frp.{{gurps}}, 5/1/2002

->Soft SF says "the Go Fast Now drive works because I pressed that red button". Hard SF takes the time to explain things in enough detail that the reader can work for themselves why it is the drive can't possibly work that way.
--> -- [[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/125341.html?thread=8965789#t8965789 James Nicoll]]

->'''Isaac:''' Interesting. What's the explanation for how it actually works?
->'''Warren:''' The [[FasterThanLightTravel hyperdrive]] utilizes '''IJD''' technology.
->'''Isaac:''' Inter...dimensional jump? IDJ?
->'''Warren:''' IJD. "It Just Does".
-->''Absurd Notions'', [[http://www.absurdnotions.org/page111.html pg. 111]] (2003).

->''Soft SF says "the Go Fast Now drive works because I pressed that red button". Hard SF takes the time to explain things in enough detail that the reader can work for themselves why it is the drive can't possibly work that way.''

->The fun, and the material for this article, lies in treating the whole thing as a game. I've been playing the game since I was a child, so the rules must be quite simple. They are: for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict with the fact as science currently understands them. For the author, the rule is to make as few such slips as he possibly can.
--> -- Hal Clement, "Whirligig World" (1953)

->'''Isaac:''' Interesting. What's the explanation for how it actually works?
->'''Warren:''' The [[FasterThanLightTravel hyperdrive]] utilizes '''IJD''' technology.
->'''Isaac:''' Inter...dimensional jump? IDJ?
->'''Warren:''' IJD. "It Just Does".
-->''Absurd Notions'', [[http://www.absurdnotions.org/page111.html pg. 111]] (2003).


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