{"id":49414,"date":"2015-01-29T20:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-soft-sf-novel.html"},"modified":"2015-01-29T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:04:22","slug":"how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-soft-sf-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-soft-sf-novel.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell if You Are in a &quot;Soft&quot; SF Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are priceless, because I can think of plenty of examples of each in books, movies, TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily bad tropes, but definitely well-worn ones to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Related to this, for you fantasists: <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/23\/tell-high-fantasy-novel\/\">http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/23\/tell-high-fantasy-novel\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Mitch Wagner<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>How To Tell If You Are In A Soft Science Fiction Novel<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of these were Stargate episodes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/28\/tell-soft-science-fiction-novel\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/82LjaAuJJM-AmLmwep-pdVCXz4taIGqnBuEnXWzWzmFclb13-BkMvEAz-Ga1NIkab7pT_SxLKMBsV2fU0TlPSKB46ZuXXQcrcg=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/28\/tell-soft-science-fiction-novel\/'>How To Tell If You Are In A Soft Science Fiction Novel<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSigns you might currently be a character in a soft science fiction novel.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3stTif6efLo'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are priceless, because I can think of plenty of examples of each in books, movies, TV shows. Not necessarily bad tropes, but definitely well-worn ones to keep in mind. Related to this, for you fantasists: http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/23\/tell-high-fantasy-novel\/ Originally shared by +Mitch Wagner: How To Tell If You Are In A Soft Science Fiction Novel I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-soft-sf-novel.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Tell if You Are in a &quot;Soft&quot; SF Novel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48571,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/doing-write-novel-completed-words-to-follow.html","url_meta":{"origin":49414,"position":0},"title":"Doing Write:  Novel Completed; Words to Follow","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Nov-14 7:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Doing Write: Novel Completed; Words to Follow http:\/\/bit.ly\/1w5sURo #NaNoWriMo View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15952,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/nanowrimo-for-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":49414,"position":1},"title":"NaNoWriMo for 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Oct-09 2:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned it a few days back on my writing blog, but since pretty much nobody reads that (since I pretty much haven't been writing there) ... 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