James Nicoll Quotes on Science fiction
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About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.
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As I've often said, I'm a fan of hard SF. No, it's more like I am addicted to it, even the stepped-on 20 times and cut with powered milk and rat-poison sort of hard SF. This gets us to Stephen Baxter's Mayflower II, published last year in a limited edition from PS Publishing. In one of the great tragedies of publishing, it was not a limited enough edition and so I have read it.
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It's true that the average human in the Xeelee universe can't eat Jell-O with a straw without accidently removing an eye but these particular humans start off no stupider than than any other human of their era and proceed to breed themselves into imbecility. Well, farther into imbecility.
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Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
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Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.