To: Paradox
Those few readers who haven't defected to Tolkienesque fantasy cling only to Star Trek, Star Wars, and other Sci Fi franchises The ultimate hard sci fi webpages / world contruction
Orion's Arm
12 posted on
09/08/2003 11:46:59 AM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Islam : totalitarian political ideology / meme cloaked under the cover of religion)
To: Centurion2000
You got that right. Real hard stuff, with no sillytech.
14 posted on
09/08/2003 11:54:30 AM PDT by
adx
(Will produce tag lines for beer)
To: Centurion2000
But that's just it.
Twenty years from now it will be possible to download any experience. So who will need to cough up the Apollo Program/Manhattan Project level big bucks to finance space projects ? The taxpayer does not wish to and the private sector sees no money to be made.
If people can live in an infinite pleasure fantasy world, will they wish to make sacrifices in the real one ? So isn't this move to fantasy in a way echoing reality ?
18 posted on
09/08/2003 12:05:48 PM PDT by
Tokhtamish
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To: Centurion2000
Oh, and from the Orion's Arm reading list, I can definitely recommend Alastair Reynolds, especially
Redemption Ark. Revelation Space was good too, but Chasm City isn't in the same league with the other two.
95 posted on
09/09/2003 12:21:16 PM PDT by
adx
(Why's it called "tourist season" if you ain't allowed to shoot 'em?)
To: Centurion2000
That's a great web page, thanks for the link.
148 posted on
09/10/2003 8:22:20 PM PDT by
Brett66
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