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hard science fiction

science fiction with emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy
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hard science fiction

Summary

hard science fiction is a science fiction genre[1]. It draws 2,139 Wikipedia views per month (science_fiction_genre category, ranking #4 of 38).[2]

Key Facts

  • hard science fiction's instance of is recorded as science fiction genre[3].
  • hard science fiction's subclass of is recorded as science fiction[4].
  • hard science fiction's opposite of is recorded as soft science fiction[5].
  • hard science fiction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03lrw[6].
  • hard science fiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hard science fiction[7].
  • hard science fiction's described by source is recorded as Campfire Codex[8].
  • hard science fiction's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as hard_sf[9].
  • hard science fiction's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as tviordaia-nauchnaia-fantastika-b9c00e[10].

Why It Matters

hard science fiction draws 2,139 Wikipedia views per month (science_fiction_genre category, ranking #4 of 38).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Interstellar Jurassic Park Larry Niven Robert A. Heinlein Solaris The Martian The Three-Body Problem

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . campfirewriting.com. Retrieved . campfirewriting.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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