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dustydigger
Posted 2015-03-12 4:36 AM (#9862 - in reply to #9857)
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Location: UK		As for Blood Music,probably the book would have been more exciting if written by Crichton! lol. I find Greg Bear a bit stodgy and dry. Great ideas that sound fantastic,but are dry as dust in the telling. I was very diasppointed with Eon,for example, which had this fascinating endless time tunnel,very intriguing,but the characters were rather lacklustre and the book seemed as endless as the tunnel! Blood Music had even less characterisation,and all in all wasnt the gripping read I had expected,but of course I am not a great enthusiast for hard science. Often there is too much emphasis on trying to make the science,which after on is not real,at least not yet,sound feasible and plausible,and it gets in the way of the story for me.This sort of book is often written on the extrapolation of present day cutting edge technology,and when the tech becomes old hat,or even wrong all this technobabble can ruin the book.Remember,poor old Dusty is a dinosaur technologically anyway,and the story is all!
I'll never forget the kerfuffle long ago over Larry Niven's Ringworld. ,where people were earnestly picking faults about the technology that kept the immense Ringworld going. To me this was a cracking story about a BDO(Big Dumb Object) awesome in its conception,and here were these people with their physics equations etc nitpicking over the details instead of enjoying the rollercoaster ride! I am a great fan of BDOs,the sense of wonder which was so prevalent in SFs early days must seem too naive to the solemn would be literary authors of today's SF,but fans still read and enjoy those old pulp SF books simply because they are fun.
Oops. Ok,off the soapbox now!

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