<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Exactly. And there's a related subgenre of space opera one could call "(military) hardware porn," where the science is totally made up but the technology is lovingly described. I don't know any names, but I've flipped through a few at my local library. OK, there's post- Ringworld Jerry Pournelle . . .<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth
Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:34 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Hard SF<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1974018091"><div>David Stockhoff, you're first paragraph made me 'LOL' as they say (in spite of its wrong Robinson).</div>
<div><br><br>David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote: </div>
<div>'If the story always comes first, the result can't ever be hard SF.'<br><br></div>
<div>That would explain why I still haven't found any I enjoy reading.</div>
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