Lost in Space
The hardest science fiction treats space travel as the nearly insurmountable obstacle that it actually is, but that tends to fall under the general umbrella of Speculative Fiction.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Sure there is that notion that space travel is the Future that never came and is thus absent in many works.
But what is the name for hard speculative fiction focusing on space.
i think of speculative fiction or futurology as a another term for Hard sci-fi class 4.5. the thing is this field has a lot of variety. On the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness cites Planetes and Gattaca as exemples of Futurology/Speculative Fiction and i guess a lot of cyberpunk stories like Neuromancer and Deus ex would fall in this category.
So when Neuromancer and Deus Ex is Cyberpunk, gattaca is Biopunk,then what is Planetes or the Red Mars trilogy?
Space Punk maybe?
There all really hard Sci-fi, but they all are in different sub-categories
I have a question there is Soft sci-fi space opera, there is raygun gohtic but is there a name of the genre for hard space-based science fiction???If Yes, what is it. If No, how should we name it.