This article honestly reminds me of nothing so much as why I stopped reading current science-fiction, and why the science-fiction I wrote took more inspiration from Douglas Adams and DC Comics than anything from the &quot;proper SF&quot; sphere of the last few decades.<p>It seems like the whole genre has become the demesne of nitpicky amateur astrophysicists instead of about humanity through the lens of projection and symbol as it used to be.<p>I don&#x27;t care how &quot;hard&quot; your science is, I care what your book has to say about humanity, or at least how well it manages to entertain and enlighten.