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Old 10-19-2011, 05:31 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
Nope, I am talking about his Sci-Fi novels, not his literary fiction. While I haven't read every book he has written, certainly anything from within his Culture series has things like anti-gravity, super weapons, etc. without any particular scientific justification. They are fun reads (though at times his anti-religious bias in Consider Phlebas gets annoying), but they are not by a long shot Hard Sci-Fi.

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Bill
Thanks, Bill. Just checking, as I also suspected you may have had reason to not consider the Culture novels "hard SF" and wanted to tease it out of you if so, for my own better understanding of terminology.

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Marc
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