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[Anonymous No.4545367]

Who is the best Sci Fi author and why is it Stephen Baxter

[Anonymous No.4545385]

bumping cause I'm interested in why this is so acclaimed.

I need something new and there's far too much out there. help a brutha out

[Anonymous No.4545406]

>>4545367
who ever said it was that queer whom I've never heard of

[Anonymous No.4545420]

>>4545367
Wolfe? Wolfe.

[Isley !oXYCvdd.bg No.4545422]

>>4545367
No other sci-fi author has an imagination on his level as far as I'm concerned.

When Baxter does alien, these are aliens you never even thought possible. Because he has a PhD in Math and a degree in Physics, all his writing is consistent with current knowledge, General Relativity and quantum mechanics.

His central tenant in his Xeelee universe is that life, and thus intelligence, can and does emerge in any sufficiently complex physical system. In that book alone you get intelligences emerging from flaws in spacetime, infinitely intelligent beings in regions of space where planck's constant is taken to zero (which would make it look reflective, as photon energy is E=hf and energy conservation still applies) and extinct aliens who made a massive space storing construct out of iron that does nothing but record data, because Godel's theorem means you can only record facts, not find a consistent underlying proof.

[Anonymous No.4545431]

>>4545422
Did you forget to drop your trip, Isley? :)

[Anonymous No.4545433]

It's not Stephen Baxter. Hard sci-fi is not the only form of science fiction, and worth does not emerge directly from the hardness of your scientific physics speculation. And the problem with him is he's not a very good writer.

[Isley !!j0QO8y+ixJ+ No.4545434]

>>4545431

Nah that was intentional. I wanted to look like there were more fans of his than just me (._. )

[Anonymous No.4545437]

>>4545434
Have you read Gene Wolfe? Book of the New Sun is amazing read.

[Isley !!j0QO8y+ixJ+ No.4545438]

>>4545433
Once you've gone hard, soft becomes ridiculous.

But yeah his characterisation is weak, the protagonists are the science spec.

But then he teamed up with Pratchett for the long earth trilogy and it's an invincible combo, imho.

[Anonymous No.4545439]

>>4545422
>>4545434
It's pretty telling that you didn't mention anything about his quality as a writer.

From everything you've written here, it seems he would be equally as satisfactory a writer if all he did was write non-fiction articles talking about cool shit that could potentially exist, because that's all you're looking for from him.

[Anonymous No.4545449]

Military oriented science fiction recs, please.
I only got few recs so far

[Anonymous No.4545549]

Roger Zelazny