That bar seems possibly appealing, though I tend not to want to spend time in most places that define themselves primarily as bars (as distinct from restaurants or concert venues that also sell alcoholic drinks).
I like your concept of "hard sf," but I think it rules out an awful lot of what is generally counted as "hard science fiction": anything written in the last hundred years that involves FTL travel doesn't qualify. Most stories with FTL depend on it to work, moreso than they depend on, say, their biology. Neither do Asimov's robot stories (I think it was Dave Langford who pointed that a positronic robot, as described, would have to shut itself down as soon as a human being came near, to avoid violating the first law by causing radiation sickness).
Another odd thought: what about continuing series that depend on science that was thought valid when the first story appeared, but no longer does? Do they get grandfathered in?
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I like your concept of "hard sf," but I think it rules out an awful lot of what is generally counted as "hard science fiction": anything written in the last hundred years that involves FTL travel doesn't qualify. Most stories with FTL depend on it to work, moreso than they depend on, say, their biology. Neither do Asimov's robot stories (I think it was Dave Langford who pointed that a positronic robot, as described, would have to shut itself down as soon as a human being came near, to avoid violating the first law by causing radiation sickness).
Another odd thought: what about continuing series that depend on science that was thought valid when the first story appeared, but no longer does? Do they get grandfathered in?