From: "roger" <dodger-AT-drizzle.com> Subject: Re: Lib-Caps are Dumb. Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:29:36 -0800 > > I like science fiction to have a plausible scientific basis. > Of course science can be really fantastic, the latest thinking > amongst some cosmologists is that our entire universe > is in fact a computer programme. Yes, science fiction did > that idea loads of times before the scientists got around > to it, but the point is, it was a plausible scientific idea. > I can think of a lot of science fiction stories which I would > class as genuine science fiction which are "fantastic" > and yet which have a plausible scientific basis. > exactly. sci-fi was among my earliest influences and hard sci-fi above all. i like a lot of the new 'hard' guys like greg bear and binford (real scientist), but i don't read nearly as much as i used to. <snip> > but nowadays I like some fantasy as well, as long as > it is by Terry Pratchett. > > Dave C > > yeah, i discovered him a few years ago and have read everything i can find. finishing up his latest paperback now. he is amazing, and funny as shit. roger
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