::However I find that maths are a core in many such as Heinlein's work and that other sciences often deviate from the hard in the works of Heinlein, Clark and even Asimov to the extent that maybe we should call it MM Science fiction. Soft science with hard shell of maths around it.Hard Science Fiction usually has some emphasis on science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, as an integral part of the story, and in a way that is consistent, believable, and explainable in terms of current scientific understanding.
So, in Star Trek, Scotty talking about Dilithium Crystals powering the Warp Drive isn't Hard Science Fiction because there's no explanation of the scientific principles involved and especially not in a way consistent with current scientific theories - whereas Arthur C Clarke's novel Imperial Earth would be, not least because maths problems form a significant part of the storytelling, among other things.
That's just my initial thought, anyway.
True "Hard SF" purists will state that hard SF doesn't use anything that isn't explainable by current knowledge.
::However if you take the books written about Apollo 13 and rewrote them with fictitious names and a fanciful title then that would be the closest you could get to pure science fiction: yes.So what you are saying is that the hardest scifi of them all, isn't scifi at all.
Same here, I just assumed it had to do with Ray Kurzweil's notion of the singularity event; when computers pass the turing test. Or something like that: The Singularity Is Near - WikipediaSingularity Science Fiction? .... This is the first I've heard about this niche genre.
I'd have thought that Singularity Science Fiction would be about...well...singularities
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