Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Firm science fiction


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The result was Delete. Cbrown1023 01:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Firm science fiction

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This term, to the best of my knowledge, has been proposed on one website to give a name to works of science fiction living between the hard and soft subdivisions of that genre. Perhaps this is laudable, but it's not notable. I get 88 Google hits for the phrase, the list being topped off by Wikipedia and WP mirrors. Many hits are irrelevant ("the firm's science fiction imprint") or use the phrase in a different meaning ("Final Fantasy manages to still be a fantasy but works towards a wide-audience appeal by placing a firm science-fiction spin on it"). For comparison, "hard science fiction" gets over 300,000 ghits, and "soft science fiction" gets over 16,000. In a word, it's cruft. Anville 21:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete: I hate deleting stuff and it is a really good reference link. But I have to agree that this particular term doesn't seem to be in wide use. Sometimes academics make up jargon within a paper to refer to a point without having to use the long-name version of that point. I buy the Google test on this. Avt tor 23:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism. Sorry. Guy (Help!) 23:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Maybe someday this will be a term in common usage, but it isn't yet. - Peregrine Fisher 01:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


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