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Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science
(theconversation.com)
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I’m a little curious. Why don’t you say flowers for Algernon isn’t hard sci-fi?
I would consider it reasonably hard- the science behind it is not unrealistic. Sure, there’s some aspects that are a bit, well off.
And sure, there’s no space ships or aliens.
But at the core of it, it’s a question of how science changes things- and it’s a beautiful peace.
The book is focused of the social and psychological aspects. The science itself is barely visible and only in the background. But that's my opinion, yours may vary.
Where would you put something like A Scanner Darkly?
I had to look it up - I've read a translated version of it (Der Dunkle Schirm), so the title didn't ring a bell. Apart from being placed in a future and those kind-of-camo-suits there was not much SciFi in that IIRC. But it had no appeal to me, anyway, as it was mostly about drug abuse.
Fair enough. Philip K Dick falls into sci-fi, but a lot of his work isn't really about the sci-fi aspects.