Hard SF
- Ideas about science, technology, and society drive the action and the story.
- Heavily concerned with scientific and technological (applied science) speculation based on current knowledge or trends in science.
- Takes the spirit of scientific inquiry seriously.
- Often requires some basic knowledge of science and technology to really get the story.
- Other writing considerations – like characterization – sometimes suffer in deference to plot and science.
- Often written by scientists.
- Can be dazzling, far-reaching, and mind-blowing.
- Very effective in short stories – one idea per story and the idea is played out to great effect. This also makes the author’s possible flaws with character based storytelling much less of an issue. If the author can handle the basic storytelling needs – like characterization – novels tend to be an interplay of various permutations/implications of the basic idea, and again very effective.
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (also Robots)
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