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Originally Posted by nekokami
It helps that I don't watch any tv. 
What do you think of those Cherryh books? |
Hmmm! Not as much as the Foreigner series. I liked them for different reasons. As usual Crerryh's writing is appealing. 'Finity's End' is the best story. 'Rim Runners' is built up on "fringe characters"/ sickos, not at all appealing and the story takes too long to develop. 'Merchanter's Luck' is good, it has some positivity that is unusual for Crerryh she always has her stories come out of dramatic near catastrophe experiences where the protagonists are in danger of somewhat easyly solvable problems.
Some little things always bother me in all her futurology.
Coffee is important in 300 years, in deep space?
No one ever has communication technology at their disposal and are always at the mercy of something that has to do with not being able to communicate. This point is relative to most science fiction BTW. In my view, if we extrapolate from 40 years ago through today's communication tecnology to a point in 300 years, everybody will be connected instantly to one another. Now
this would be a writing challenge. Just try to imagine the influence of that on the psyche of a growing youg soul and the life of anyone for that matter.