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For hard SF, I really liked Stephen Baxter's short story collections (one I recall was Vacuum Diagrams). The couple of novels of his I've read I wasn't in love with (Manifold Time and Manifold Space) because the characters seemed flat to me, but his short stories moved along at a brisk enough pace that I didn't notice.
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"The Time Ships" is excellent - an authorised sequel to H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine". You're right that characterisation isn't Baxter's strength, but even so I think he writes excellent books.
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This calls for:
(warning - one curse on the screen - audio is clean) |
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Where was there a curse on the screen??
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I didn't see it either.
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If you have "Annotations On" it comes up at about the 1:05 mark. If you have that setting Off it doesn't come up.
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OIC.
Hey, one more thought on the suck/blow issue. If I lived INSIDE a tire, and some one opened the valve, I would say my air was being sucked out. If one of my fellow tire dwellers increased the pressure inside until it ruptured the valve, I'd say it was blown out. Not sure that this changes anything but it does make me want to write an sf story about a race of beings living in our tires. |
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And hopefully you won't get 'tired'of the story before finding a good ending. I wonder how they will explain a spacial disruption/warping of the universe (i.e. a flat tire).
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Think carefully, guys. I once had a field mouse take refuge in one of my hub caps (warmed by the brakes on a cold winter day). I didn't find him until after my next road trip, which involved some moderately high speed driving on a state highway.
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I'm also trying to figure out a way to integrate a story line where the tire race could wipe the midi-chlorians out of existence, like totally, from the the entirety of the multiverse space-time continuum, so they will never have existed and never be spoken of again.
And then at the end, I could have the car they are in run over Jar Jar Binks. I know this might seem like topic drift, but it's not. Those Star Wars elements most definitely suck and blow. |
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