whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Munumbis Most of the really good Hard SF writers are gone now. Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Then you start to get down to individual books. I dug through a number of older short story collections and came up with a few lesser known authors who have produced the occasional good read..😷
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@PeachyK Granted. But if there is a wizard in the group I am suspicious..I accept FTL travel for the sake of the plot, or else nothing would happen in outer space.. But I respect the laws of physics..
ninalanyon · 70-79, T
Much, perhaps most, of the best SF is about the human condition. The SF setting allows the author to concentrate on particular aspects that might be difficult to isolate otherwise.
Take Ursula K. LeGuin's novel The Dispossessed for instance. It uses space travel to firmly separate two societies i order to compare and contrast them.
Take Ursula K. LeGuin's novel The Dispossessed for instance. It uses space travel to firmly separate two societies i order to compare and contrast them.