Lucas Blogs About To Be Taught if Fortunate
As cool as the picture is, no such scene occurs in the book. So, what's this book's dea—wait a minute! Is that a regular book? What do you mean by that? You know what I mean, a book that isn't a comic or The Canterbury Tales ? Oh. . . yeah. I still read some of those sometimes. Anyway, the deal with this particular book is that it's a novella by Becky Chambers and it's called To Be Taught if Fortunate . In spite of the person floating in space without a helmet, it's what you might call hard science fiction. Oh was it difficult to get through? What? Oh I see, you're pretending to not know about the distinction between "hard" and "soft" science fiction so that I can explain it. Does pointing out the purpose of a rhetorical device render the whole thing moot? Maybe. But generally the dividing line between hard and soft science fiction is whether the story generally comports with the current scientific understanding of what is possible. Also,...