Hard science fiction

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Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by high concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell's Islands of Space in the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

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