Soft SF

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Soft SF is basically any science fiction that isn’t hard SF or space opera, that is, it isn’t built around extrapolation of present day hard science, technology and engineering. Hence, it includes social satire, science fantasy, alternate history, some paranormal fiction, New Wave and more.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.



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