I have to have read at least one book by the author.
Either I or a large number of other people think the author is good, for instance by getting ahugo award nomination.(an annual award given by professional science fiction writers)
It has to be science fiction, but I will include occasional fantasy writers, particularly fantasy writers who also write scifi. A brief definition is fiction that is focused around a theoretical scientific concept or where the author has created a new fictional technology or other alternate universe where things work differently than they do in the real world The author incorporates those differences and their consequences into the themes or plot of the story. Often it is set in the future or a different world.
The common breakdown is hard science fiction, which has a strong focus on the real world or potential real world science and technology and soft science fiction, where the science exists mainly to propel the story. Fantasy is similar, but is often set in the past and uses whatever magic rules the author wants to use to effect their story.
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