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Originally Posted by soltakss
I've never understood Hard SF.
No FLT Travel, No Jumps through Hyper Space, no HyperSpace, no weird alien species, no immortals, no Psionics, just slowly moving through space to some asteroid or acelerating for months until you reach near-light sped, decelerating until you reach a planet, then going home the same way to find that your baby's grandchildren have grown old and died.
Not my idea of fun, to be honest.
But, there again, I liked Car Wars  |
Actually, if you do the Hard ci-Fi with enough hard science it can be interesting. The whole time dilation thing actually makes the times much less pronounced, assume you can get enough fuel. With enough fuel, even at only 1g, you could reach the limits of the universe within your lifetime. So a setting where the "Space Patrol" was viewed as a bunch of immortals (since for an outside view you would age normally, while they would stay young), and somewhat detected from the 'dirters" until it was time to retire, could be interesting.
And there is always a "local Level" SF idea. For instance image what fun could be had with "just" the solar system. We could have people terraforming Mars, mining the ateroid field between Mars and Jupiter, or epliring the other planets and moons. Hard Sci-Fi isn't any more boring that, say, modern day settings.