River ,'Objects In Space'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Niven is a good example: ... Hal Clement(,) ... Mission of Gravity(,) ...Vernor Vinge ... Jack McKinney ... Sarah Zettel (!!) ...CJ Cherryh ...
Back off, geeks! This one is mine!
(eta; CjC: Not particularly hard science, but consistent, in her plebotinum. She definately works from a hard, thorough understanding of historical trends.)
Obviously didn't do his homework on how fruitless most genetic algorithms are....
I wonder what the thoughts are on Moon, where the plot relies on mining drinkable water in ice form under the crust.
I wonder what the thoughts are on Moon, where the plot relies on mining drinkable water in ice form under the crust.
There's this:
Jack McKinney
Do you mean Jack McDevitt?
Vernor Vinge, the late Anderson, Larry Niven all hard science fiction writers who also do good charterizations and society. Many others too. But Anderson was at least much a fantasy writer as an SF writer. And the others were of a later generations who learned you could not get away with making your (non-sentient) rocket the main character. Of his generation, I think Heinlein was the only "hard" SF writer who did a decent job of characterization, universe building and society building. I should have said "of his generation" and hereby do.
The core is liquid, and there is ice....but water as we know it? And drinkable? We'll give Ed a big glass and if he lives, we'll all go live on the moon.
Allyson, ice is water. All you have to do is melt it.
Well, not all water is potable.
What, they can't bring a Brita with them?
I deny your claim. It's liquid, and it's frozen, but is it water?