 | I am:Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s. |
I thought I'd better read one of his books. So I read Mission of Gravity.
And oddly enough, this really was exactly the kind of science fiction book I would write if I wrote science fiction. The plot and characters weren't all that compelling, but the ideas were nifty. Basically, he built the whole book around a planet he'd come up with whose gravity worked in a strange and non-standard way. And the plot just involved these aliens traveling to retrieve something. Basically, problem-solving due to the harsh conditions. It was all really just an excuse to mess around with physics equations and figure out what a world satisfying those equations would look like.Anyway, it reminded me that these years in academia have only ruined my ability to write creatively, and also that at heart I'm really just a big math nerd. Are the results of this quiz as revealing about you?
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Yes, I'm William Gibson. Well, I am hip and edgy- right guys?
And I'm Arthur C Clarke, which is a good thing. If I had been either Hal Clement of William Gibson (vancouver local, btw) I would have had to challenge both of you to a DANCE OFF! BWAHAHAHAHAHA! To ABBA mucic, no less. The one who loses their lunch last wins.
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Whatever. I am a super-flexible logician. If anyone's winning a sci-fi dance off, it's me!
Admittedly, I lack the Swedish roots to tolerate ABBA, but I'll train up with Hong Kong pop music if I must.
hey, have you noticed that all the listed sci fi writers were dead white guys? or almost dead, whatever. what's up with that? why no hot sci fi mamas? oh...is that an oxymoron?
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