I love this. Disappointed it‘s closed to 'Soft SF'..... some of the best titles of the last 70 years are soft rather than hard.... and better books... I'll wait for that comp instead. 😉
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I love this. Disappointed it‘s closed to 'Soft SF'..... some of the best titles of the last 70 years are soft rather than hard.... and better books... I'll wait for that comp instead. 😉
The reason is, the lit mag whose editors have agreed to this accepts hard sci-fi only. I write soft sci-fi myself.
Associate Editor knows about this, but The Executive Editor hasn't heard about it yet. He's suffered major setbacks to his computer system and his health. I'm tempted to launch my own ezine, but my techno-skills were bad last-century (I set a record in Typing Class of -74 wpm)
Peter, I'm not a hard liner about hard vs soft, but I'm also not the owner of a sci-fi zine.
Depends on what the contest moderators call "soft SF", and how you incorporate it into plausible SF (hard SF). The greats of hard SF (Asimov, Heinlein, Orwell even) wrote mainly social SF, sometimes called "soft SF". If that's what you're referring to, soft SF easily works into a hard SF story, often going hand-in-hand. Perhaps a clarification on whether the hard SF qualifier is strictly for the physical sciences or if social sciences count in this contest?