tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119383823552885882.post2353881011459809553..comments2024-03-12T07:22:29.718+01:00Comments on The Science Fiction Writers' Guide to Space: Science fiction done right: Inherit the Stars by James P HoganTsana Dolichvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16213478548320312760noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119383823552885882.post-16669792731223062011-09-13T04:53:03.716+02:002011-09-13T04:53:03.716+02:00I love that book so much.I love that book so much.Quincy Quincettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05958720030354418138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119383823552885882.post-84784688196729159702011-09-12T18:07:35.285+02:002011-09-12T18:07:35.285+02:00I suspected that might be the case from reading th...I suspected that might be the case from reading the blurbs of the sequels. It's not that I had that many objections to the world he set up, but the really appealing part was solving the mystery. Once the mystery was solved, you couldn't really go solving it again.<br /><br />And political commentary from the 70s? I guess that's better than from the 50s or 60s...Tsana Dolichvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16213478548320312760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119383823552885882.post-32615946915803714732011-09-12T13:53:51.612+02:002011-09-12T13:53:51.612+02:00It's one of those series which seems to have s...It's one of those series which seems to have suffered from sequelitis. The second book is interesting, but it's less of a mystery and more of a vehicle for political commentary. I never finished the third book, and the later ones, as far as I can tell, get softer and softer (in terms of the hardness of the science), being about simulated realities, AIs with personality, time travel and so on. TV Tropes advises me that they retcon and ruin the original, so I don't intend to bother.<br /><br />Inherit the Stars itself? Masterpiece. My favourite SF novel.Oolon Colluphidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02551248140000240712noreply@blogger.com