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Old 11-18-2007, 11:18 AM   #6
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: How Hard is your Science Fiction?

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Originally Posted by Pmandrekar
How hard do your SF campaigns run? Do you have a strong preference for one extreme or another?
Let's analyze the data on what I've run:

Kafer Outbreak (2300 AD): Generally hard sf in spirit, but with stutterwarp FTL: call it +1

Uplift (GURPS): Focused on trade, alien cultures, practical jokes, sex, and personnel problems on a merchant starship: 0

First Contact (GURPS): Based on one paragraph in Olaf Stapledon's The Star Maker; focused on diplomacy and potential inter planetary war; no FTL, but assumed that entire planets could be launched into interstellar space: +1

Whispers (GURPS): Private investigators in the Montréal of Transhuman Space: no FTL, and serious worldbuilding: somewhere between +1 and +2

I'd say that I tend toward the "hard SF" side, but I'm not necessarily focused on the tech, and I may allow one "impossible assumption" such as FTL. So called it midway between firm and hard, maybe.

Bill Stoddard
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