“This is genre of science fiction that’s concerned with scientific accuracy, with explaining how something might actually work in the real world. For example, The Martian was hard science fiction. It presented an example of what an astronaut might actually do if stranded on Mars. A lot of Daniel…”
“ This refers to a professional scribe or copyist, whose job it was to copy manuscripts before the printing press was invented. The etymology traces back to the Latin word for ‘scribe.’ ”