Hard SF

David Duffy · 29 Nov 2012, 01:34 · from 2012-November.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:34:15 +1000
Subject: (urth) Hard SF
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, David Stockhoff wrote:

> and the Mars trilogy by Spider Robinson (another damn Catholic!), which 
> apparently exists to prove that science fiction can be deadly boring

You meant KSR, I suppose.  Boring? ... de gustibus.  His first novel 
_Icehenge_ has some Wolfe-like ambiguities and twists, and is short ;)

> philosophical exactly

How about _Star Maker_?

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