Chris Moriarty on Hard SF: “Since the 1960s (and arguably earlier) hard sf has suffered from the attacks of new wavers, feminists, cyberpunks, socialists, postcolonialists, poststructuralists postmodernists posthumanists and nearly every other imaginable kind of -ist in the genre. These attacks have been accompanied by loud and frequent proclamations that hard sf is dead and the golden age is over. In reality things have turned out to be more complicated … and more interesting. Today’s hard sf seems to have incorporated the critiques of its attackers, rolled the best of their ideas into its toolkit and moved on.”
via Ciro Cattuto, who did a cool network visualization of GustavoG’s tags.