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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hunter: [QB] [QUOTE] I take it you're refering to the Banksian "nastyness"? [/QUOTE]To a large degree, yes. Admitdley it seems much more prevalant in the new Britsh authors then any where else.Plus there some of them who attempt to mimic Banks writting style. A good example of both is Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds, as I mentioned above. Of course most of them also seem to have left wing politics as well(a reaction to Thatchers polices?)So they all seem a little samey, now in some case thats forgivable such as Ken Mcleod, who I understand is a friend of Banks, but I want something new. [QUOTE] As for Vinge...are you speaking of the Singularity here? [/QUOTE]Again yes. The problem I have with a lot of the stories around it is that they have touch of almost religous overtones, in the sense that with the right technology there will be a new heaven and a new earth, not to mention a new humanity. They also seem to grossly over state the ability of the technology i.e. Nanotech is the most offten abused in that it is fast,requires no power or supplies, produces no excess heat or allows magical abilites(Trek does the same thing adimttdly). Something else that bothers me about it is how they forget about physical limatons. A good example is Moore's law, which is often used to prove how close we are to the singularity, states that proccesor speed increases every eighteen months and gets cheaper(actually by now its closer to twelve months)which means in about 15 years we should have a proccesor wilth more connections then a human brain. The only problem is that in about a deacade (less due to various factors) the pysical limit to chip size will be reached. Whilest there optronic and quantam computing may alivate that problem they're bound to have physical limits of their own. [QUOTE] I often wonder what an ST novel written by Stephen Baxter or Kim Stanley Robinson would be like... [/QUOTE]As long as it's Baxter form his Xelee-Anti Ice-Voyage-Timeships period and not from his Titan-Wholly Mammoth on mars peroid, then it might be fun.It would probaley cover the univerise and have something to do with the laws of physics. So something about supersymmetry breaking down due to warp dirves and wierd alien life from subspace? As for Kim Stanley Robinson can't say I paricular like him (I have heard that his lates Alt-histroy thing is good) but a colony peice might be intersting. It might be possible to get a hard science writter in to trek some have done it before i.e. Greg Bear, James Blish, George Zebrowski. One of the easiset to ask would probably be David Brin, who I think is a Trek Fan(is it in Startide Rising about all engineers being scottish?) and has done some trek work I think. As to fantasy, would I be stoned if I said I have all of the WOT Books and am looking forward to the next one ;) ? Personaly there does seem to be to much of it on the shelves and lot of it is the same(expilitly so in the case of David Eddings, who has far as I tell has written the same trilogy three or four times.)Beside there are Fanatsy medi-tie ins, I mean I've seen alot of people reading those Fellowship of the Rings movies novelazations :p I cant speak of Larry Niven, as I think that I've only read one short story of his(About a hotshot pilot who is hired by an earth spy to find out why ships have been disapering before reaching earth. it turns out to be a short guy from a high grav world who cant get laid and is therfore using his pet black hole to destory earth ships). As to turning off the tv I have seen reports that tv use among 18-25 year olds is falling as they are logging on to the 'net more. As to Star Trek novels I have read worse origanl science fiction. I've never wanted to burn the book or at the very least have the bad guys massacre the "Good Guys" from reading them. Nor have I found them to be exercises in "I have a degree in Physics and you don't" like some books(Cosm by benford? about a reascher who makes a proto universe and then does nothing for large portion of the book)with very little plot. Which I suppse is the point, no point doing something outrageous id it is all invaldiated in nex weeks episode. Of course the recent stuff seems better in that respect as there are new episodes to worry about. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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