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FUTURE VISIONS - science fiction inspried by Microsoft (FREE - forever, I think)
#347351 - 11/24/15 07:23 AM
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http://news.microsoft.com/futurevisions/
I'm just starting to read this. I know only David Brin, Greg Bear (my homie), and Jack McDevitt.
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Re: FUTURE VISIONS - science fiction inspried by Microsoft (FREE - forever, I think)
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#347368 - 11/24/15 11:14 PM
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> http://news.microsoft.com/futurevisions/
>
> I'm just starting to read this. I know only David Brin, Greg Bear (my homie), and
> Jack McDevitt.
I know Sawyer from his short stories, and of course Brin and Bear... I've possibly read both Bears, can't say offhand.
In fact... Sawyer... Hominids. It was printed in serial format in one of the two SF mags I stopped subscribing to when they finally piled up too high. Meant to get/reread it and the two sequels, but the backlog is still there. The science is probably outdated already; stories in those tended to focus on cutting-edge theories. This one used a neutrino detector as an inter-dimensional gateway, as a plot device to... explore... modern society directly, contrasting it with the fictional hominid society he'd created.
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Right, Sawyer....
[Re: TriggerFin]
#347545 - 11/28/15 08:09 AM
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I read HOMINIDS, some years ago. It was a cool imagination of what if. Surely a better world in most respects. Well done and all, but the story was PG, the characters middle of the road for my tastes.
I have a hard time with just about anything in any medium these days, though, cos I'm either smarter than the characters, or author, or/and just plain fearless (emotionally, physically, whatever).
I'm trying to read PROXIMA by Stephen Baxter, and the most interesting character to me so far has been the programmed matter entity Angelia....
Read the intro, etc, to FV but haven't started the first story.
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