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knivesout · 29th August 2005, 01:38 PM

I've certainly enjoyed Justina Robson, Ian MacDonald and Baxter (although some of his stuff is a bit dry for me) - a lot of the other authors you mention haven't yet trickled down to this neck of the woods. A couple of newer writers I'd recommend pretty highly are Adam Roberts and Ken MacLeod.

You dismiss 1984 as good sf because it's 'not realistic even'. The same argument could, and has been by the Mundane SF crowd, applied to nearly any SF novel that involves FTL travel, extraterrestrial intelligence and other devices without which a large percentage of the SF we enjoy wouldn't even exist. Just like Orwell maybe exaggerates things to prove a point, nearly every SF author out there has has assumed a few unilkely developments so as to be able to tell a story at all. Just my 2c.

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knivesout cheap,flashy little crook Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,998	Re: Sci-Fi Recommendations - for the unenlightened I've certainly enjoyed Justina Robson, Ian MacDonald and Baxter (although some of his stuff is a bit dry for me) - a lot of the other authors you mention haven't yet trickled down to this neck of the woods. A couple of newer writers I'd recommend pretty highly are Adam Roberts and Ken MacLeod. You dismiss 1984 as good sf because it's 'not realistic even'. The same argument could, and has been by the Mundane SF crowd, applied to nearly any SF novel that involves FTL travel, extraterrestrial intelligence and other devices without which a large percentage of the SF we enjoy wouldn't even exist. Just like Orwell maybe exaggerates things to prove a point, nearly every SF author out there has has assumed a few unilkely developments so as to be able to tell a story at all. Just my 2c.