/lit/ - Literature

>>18612443
That feels like an incredibly reductionist way to look at things. There is absolutely a difference between, say, The Gods Themselves and Hyperion. TGT attempts to use a hypothetical alternate universe where the fundamental physical laws are altered, but then uses that basis and takes it as it can go within the current known limits of science. Hyperion, on the other hand, has time traveling robots, wormhole computers, and cross-shaped parasites that make you immortal and retarded.

One is not inherently better than the other, just that their approach to the science is fundamentally different.

>>18612459
Maybe it's just the authors I've been exposed to but I feel like there's more authors that do it well than you give credit for.