scifi is too broad of a genre lol. I got excited because I saw someone on Taimi who liked scifi and I was thinking “omg they also like nerdy {fiction that is about science} like me!” but what they actually like are action-y emotion-heavy space operas. which is perfectly valid! but not what I was expecting or hoping for

even within the concept of “hard scifi” there’s the kind that glosses over the science, where it’s only hard scifi for bragging rights lol (Lilith’s Brood is a great example). and then there’s the kind that is about the science, which is what I like (Dragon’s Egg and Rendezvous with Rama come to mind)

basically as far-removed from emotions as you can make the scifi, that’s what I like. I want it conceptual and cerebral and not dramatic or emotional unless it’s doing a bad job of being those things