https://wadefrancis.com/tags/hard-sci-fi/ Recent content in hard sci-fi on Wade Francis | Science Fiction Author Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:00:06 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/what-hard-scifi-means/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:00:06 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/what-hard-scifi-means/ Hard sci-fi isn’t about equations or technical manuals. It’s about consequences, constraints, and what happens when you can’t cheat your way out of a problem. https://wadefrancis.com/blog/research-you-never-see/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:16:17 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/research-you-never-see/ A look at the research that underpins Whispers in the Dark — and why most of it never appears on the page. https://wadefrancis.com/blog/engineers-writing-fiction/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:04:44 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/engineers-writing-fiction/ Do engineers approach fiction differently? A look at how systems thinking, constraints, and failure modes influence the way stories are built. https://wadefrancis.com/blog/frozen-foregone/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:04:29 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/frozen-foregone/ A man chooses cryofreeze to survive his illness, only to wake decades later in a world where the rules — and the ethics — have shifted beneath him. https://wadefrancis.com/blog/my-writing-process/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:15:51 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/my-writing-process/ How AI Fit Into My Writing Process (and Why the Story Is Still Mine) There’s a lot of conversation around AI and creative work right now. Some people are excited, some are cautious, and some want nothing to do with it. All of those reactions are valid. I’m not trying to sway you one way or the other—I’m aiming to be open and transparent about how I did things so you can make your own informed decision. https://wadefrancis.com/blog/whispers-update-2/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:53:03 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/whispers-update-2/ When Physics Says No: The Idea That Broke My First Chapter Every author eventually kills a darling. Sometimes it’s a clunky paragraph or an unnecessary character. In my case, it was the entire opening concept. Originally, Whispers in the Dark began with an ambitious idea: an advanced telescope system capable of chaining gravitational lenses together. The goal was simple and wild — to “untangle” light bent around massive objects, reconstruct it with staggering computing power, and see further back in time than ever before.