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<blockquote data-quote="StevenJPemberton" data-source="post: 2459395" data-attributes="member: 769850">It doesn&#039;t sound like sci-fi at all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :-p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-p" />Hard sci-fi, strictly, is just sci-fi that doesn&#039;t posit anything that is prohibited by the laws of physics as we currently understand them. So your story could be hard sci-fi. Near-future sci-fi, maybe? Really, it depends on what sort of sci-fi elements you do have, and how you present them.EDIT: I can speak only for myself, but if you said &quot;it&#039;s sci-fi,&quot; I wouldn&#039;t automatically assume it was set in outer space. Alien invasion is a recognised sub-genre. Well - if you say &quot;it&#039;s a story about an alien invasion&quot;, people will assume it&#039;s set on present-day Earth. Movies and TV seem to like that sort of story, possibly because it plays on American paranoia about being overrun by Commies or Muslims, and possibly because they don&#039;t have to build so many complicated sets or go looking for lots of locations that can pass for alien planets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="StevenJPemberton, post: 2459395, member: 769850"] It doesn't sound like sci-fi at all :-p Hard sci-fi, strictly, is just sci-fi that doesn't posit anything that is prohibited by the laws of physics as we currently understand them. So your story could be hard sci-fi. Near-future sci-fi, maybe? Really, it depends on what sort of sci-fi elements you do have, and how you present them. EDIT: I can speak only for myself, but if you said "it's sci-fi," I wouldn't automatically assume it was set in outer space. Alien invasion is a recognised sub-genre. Well - if you say "it's a story about an alien invasion", people will assume it's set on present-day Earth. Movies and TV seem to like that sort of story, possibly because it plays on American paranoia about being overrun by Commies or Muslims, and possibly because they don't have to build so many complicated sets or go looking for lots of locations that can pass for alien planets. [/QUOTE]

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