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Bad science fiction can have the following characteristics:

It does not hew closely enough to actual science. This is my personal biggest gripe.
It has some ridiculous premise or other (e.g. space aliens come through a worm hole, inseminate all the women of earth, and the offspring are time traveling superheroes). But, as a caveat, some good writers pride themselves on taking ridiculous premises and actually making good stories out of them. Still, hard to imagine a story like that employing good science (#1).
Any quality that makes for bad writing (poor character development, etc) will make for bad science fiction writing

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