SF Planetary Science Mystery Adventures

[Joseph Paul]

Originally Posted by johndallman

The degree of hardness of the SF you're running was quite unclear. Your example indicates "not very hard" but is not yet fully descriptive. Some examples of SF at the hardness level you're trying for might help.

Do you mean the Space Roar example described here? > http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/...e_balloon.html - which is an actual mystery to us? That's 'not very hard'?

Or did my glib reference to Scooby-Doo indicate that to you? If so my apologies. I was really just being tongue in cheek about human agents
faking paranormal/supernatural/weird science for their own, usually nefarious, ends.

As for examples from SF of 'hardness', try 'Into the Miranda Rift' by G. David Nordley. Miranda actually has a density much less than its sister moons and Nordley makes that due to the moon having not yet re-compacted enough after a collision to eliminate large caverns or rifts. The heroes are looking for a way to transit Miranda via those caverns. Sweet premise that rests on solid info and serious speculation about what that info means.