Three-Body Problem Series
Load Bearing
Three-Body Problem Series
An unsolved orbital problem becomes the history of a whole species rather than set dressing, though the heading for fiction built that way is still an empty shelf.
Guide building
Trope guide
Hard Sf
Hard Sf is a reader-facing story pattern in the Riley Locke vocabulary. This page currently gathers 3 books with published claims and shows the reason for each placement.
- Books
- 3 Published placements
- Load-bearing
- 1 Shapes the book
- Present
- 2 Meaningful but not organizing
- Genres reached
- 1 Across canonical genre bindings
1Load-bearingThe pattern helps organize the book’s core promise.
2PresentThe pattern matters, but the book is not built around it.
0Performs-onlyThe surface resembles the trope without fully delivering its usual promise.
Riley Locke definition
What “Hard Sf” means here
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Books with published reasons
3 books use this trope
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Three-Body Problem Series
Blindsight
Present
Blindsight
Clinical literature does the load-bearing work and the citations at the back are real, on a name the vocabulary holds in reserve with nothing published under it.
Present
Death’s End
Fear is produced here by grasping a physical law rather than by watching anything detonate, which is the mode at full stretch, and no entry stands behind the term yet.
Graph connections
Tropes often found nearby
These are co-occurrences across the books above, not claims that the terms are interchangeable.