![]() ![]() Those are stories about people and societies, more than they are about big idea, what if questions. Hard science fiction seems to mostly be composed of gritty, character-heavy stories like The Martian or The Expanse, which just are not the same. Unfortunately, I don’t really know of any new science fiction that can properly be put into the same category as something like this. ![]() I believe there are six, but I’m not entirely certain what ground would be covered in the other four that wasn’t already covered in these first two, because I’m not really thinking of any unanswered questions left when I finished this book.Įvery time I pick up one of these classic-style science fiction novel, like Ringworldor Double Star, I find myself saying that a) I should read these sorts of books more often, and b) I wish that books like these were still written today. Warning: this post may contain spoilers for James P Hogan’s novel Inherit the Stars, composed of The Two Moons, and The Gentle Giants of GanymedeĪs the cover quote from Isaac Asimov indicates, this is one of the classics of science fiction, being the first two novels (which really should be read as one book, and are certainly of length suitable to doing so, which is why I will be reviewing them that way) in James P Hogan’s Giants series. ![]()
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