At 2/22/09 01:33 PM, MegaMelmo wrote:
See, Star Wars is more Science Fiction, compared to Arthur C. Clarke's stuff which sometimes is more Science Fiction.
The usual distinction is "hard" vs. "soft" sci-fi. A.C. Clarke's stuff is the hard quality, the one that's grounded heavily in scince, also sometimes called "speculative fiction", that is, science-based speculation of the future. Soft sci-fi, on the other hand, is bit like fantasy, just with lasers and spaceships and stuff.