Sci-Fi: Hard Science or Soft?

[Micah]

Owen wrote: "I like my sci-fi with a hard crunchy shell and a nice soft center..."

Perhaps we need a new metric for placing books on a soft-to-hard scale: How many licks does it take to get to the soft SF core?

;D

[[deleted user]]

Owen wrote: "I like my sci-fi with a hard crunchy shell and a nice soft center.

And now that some quantum physicists have declared that the universe is not matter-based but consciousness-based, whole new hard-shell, soft-shell, crunchy, soft, swirly probabilities appear.

[[deleted user]]

Charles wrote: "And now that some quantum physicists have declared that the universe is not matter-based but consciousness-based, wh..."

I'd really like to get my share of whatever it is that those quantum-physics guys are smoking. And if they pass out, lose consciousness, so to speak, will the universe cease to exist? Sounds like an important question when you're high.

[Thomas]

Micah wrote: "Perhaps we need a new metric for placing books on a soft-to-hard scale: How many licks does it take to get to the soft SF core?"

Haha. Definitely this.

Soft vs Hard isn't my primary concern when reading. Believability is. If it's soft and yet believable, I'm good with it.