Wow...now this is a description :)

[sdelaforge]

I've been on FurryMUCK for 14 years. But reciently ZeeLee came up with a most unique description. Can you guess where it came from

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[cateagle]

I'd be tempted to say an angel or demon, more likely the latter, at first glance at the description.

[saythename]

Hint: Stephen Baxter

^_^

[cateagle]

Emm, bit of a problem, I've not read him.

[saythename]

Get thee hence to the library young felinus!

^_^

[cateagle]

Heh, first time I've been called young in ages; I'm at "three score less four" years. I'll do that (get to teh library) as other activities permit (I'm in the middle of job-hunting at the moment and that'll almost assuredly be followed by yet another cross-country move).

[saythename]

Awr!

Good luck upon you then!

[sdelaforge]

[grins] Aye young felinus. Go to the library and check out http://www.baxterium.org.uk/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence

The guy can write such exquisive, and mind-blowing works. Hard sci-fi isn't the word, more like neutronium hard sci-fi :)

- Shado

[cateagle]

Hmm, I'm not too surprised that he writes hard sf, ISTR reading his bio on a book and he's an engineer. It seems that engineers tend to write hard sf - The Admiral, of course, is a prime example, but "Doc" Smith was a chemical engineer and I believe James Hogan has an electrical engineering background. ISTR that L. Srague DeCamp had an engineering background, too, as did George O. Smith (his comes through, big time). it wasn't sf, but one of the great British novelists of the mid-20th century was an engineer, Nevil Shute (Norway), who helped found Airspeed Aircraft, which eventually was absorbed into the DeHavilland operation.

[silverfur]

Kind of have to agree there.

In SciFi, sometimes the author background just shines through. Nothing like reading David Drake's military-scifi... At least the soldiers still behave like real soldiers. And aren't all pushed out of exact same mold, unless they literally are... :)

[cateagle]

And David Weber's background in history most definitely shines through.

[saythename]

The thing is, for many years this sort
of truly "hard" SF went away. Sure
there was the occasionaly Niven story
but nothing else.

Or maybe I was out of the loop too
long. ^.^;

[sdelaforge]

True, and he's also ex-military too, so that came out in his Destiny's Child series (one of the best I've ever read!) But sometimes his works gets REALLY hard to understand (Vacuum Diagrams for example.) Still worth the read, especially when he got together with Arthur C. Clarke (May he RIP)

- Shado