![]() ![]() The Culture novels of Iain M.īanks are great reads, but the technology is so far ahead of the current levelīanks has to work hard to craft situations where the Culture simplyĪ pure science-fiction story, in my view, requires two Thinner the line between science-fiction and fantasy. ![]() Indeed, the more advanced the technological base of the story, the Would not be pure science-fiction either. Science-fiction world - a clone body being used to hide a crime, for example. A romance story dressed up in science-fiction clothing would not, in myĭetective story that didn't depend on a science-fiction element as well as a What is science-fiction? Is it merely a setting or is it something more? Is it focused on technology or the human factor, adventure or philosophy? Is it the future, or the past, or an alternate world? And does it cross the line between straight SF and other genres? ![]() To answer that, one must answer a question that hasīedevilled many of us in the SF community in the last decade or so. ![]() They set the standards for the rest of us to follow. Novels of the last four decades, both alone and in partnership with Larry Niven. Pournelle crafted - crafted, perchance - some of the most important Grand Masters of science-fiction, has left me looking back at his work and how The passing of Jerry Pournelle, one of the acknowledged Footfall - (Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven) ![]()
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