Miscategorization?
sindresorhus opened this issue · comments
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/380izr/scifi_worth_consuming/crriifl
'Soft Sci Fi' list which includes Schild's Ladder.... that's some pretty hard scifi right there.
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[–]CalvinR 3 points 6 days ago
Also Flower's for Algrenon would probably not be classified as Bio Punk but as Soft Sci Fi
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[–]St4rburn 2 points 7 days ago
I have a feeling they got soft and hard missed up, considering the martian is not in hard.
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[–]elegance_shortfall 1 point 5 days ago
And Greg Egan's awesome Orthogonal series isn't listed, which is basically a lesson in why you should pay attention in physics and maths classes.
Flowers for Algernon is biological science fiction. It's not exactly biopunk. I don't know why biopunk is even a category, really.
I haven't read Schild's Ladder, The Martian, or Orthogonal. What do we do to categorize these properly, in this case? Go home and read them?
All three are hard SF. The Martian is more relaxed; Schild's Ladder and Orthogonal are so hard it actually helps to have taken an introductory course to quantum electrodynamics :)