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soft science fiction
Soft science fiction, or soft SF, is a category of science fiction that uses less probable or realistic science elements.〔http://www.kheper.net/topics/scifi/soft_scifi.html〕 It either (1) explores the "soft" sciences, and especially the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and so on), rather than engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry), or (2) is not scientifically accurate, or (3) both of the former.〔http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/soft_sf〕 Soft science fiction of either type is often more concerned with character and speculative societies, rather than scientific or engineering speculations. It is the complement of hard science fiction. The term first appeared in the late 1970s.
==Definition==
In ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', Peter Nicholls writes that "soft SF" is a "not very precise item of SF terminology" and that the contrast between hard and soft is "sometimes illogical."〔"Soft SF," ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', ed. John Clute and Peter Nicholls, 1995, ISBN 0-312-13486-X.〕 In fact, the boundaries between "hard" and "soft" are neither definite nor universally agreed-upon, so there is no single standard of scientific "hardness" or "softness." Some readers might consider any deviation from the possible or probable (for example, including faster-than-light travel or paranormal powers) to be a mark of "softness." Others might see an emphasis on character or the social implications of technological change (however possible or probable) as a departure from the science-engineering-technology issues that in their view ought to be the focus of hard SF. Given this lack of objective and well-defined standards, "soft science fiction" does not indicate a genre or subgenre of SF but a tendency or quality—one pole of an axis that has "hard science fiction" at the other pole.
In ''Brave New Words'', subtitled ''The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction'', soft science fiction is given two definitions. The first definition is science fiction that is primarily focused on advancements in, or extrapolations of, the soft sciences; that is social sciences and not natural sciences. The second definition is science fiction in which science is not important to the story.
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