Comment DAVID BRIN?! (Score 1) 1190
The guy is fantastic - his books, almost without exception, meet everyone's criteria for what a good book should have:
- A great concept:
*Earth: A miniature black hole is in the earth's core - no one knows where it comes from, or how to keep it from killing everyone. People want to use it as a weapon, as our savior and as a God. Fantastic concepts of environmentalism, applied technology, personal relations and struggle.
*Heart of the Comet: Astronauts go to Halley's comet to explore and mine. Racial tensions between genetically altered people and 'normal' people plague how the people on the comet interact for the years as well as the aggressive, bacterial/viral/worm like life forms that live in the comet's Core. Full of good, hard sci-fi with all sorts of well-researched technical concepts and terms.
*The Uplift Trilogy: Humans begin the process of genetically altering Dolphins and Chimps so we can work together on space travel and science. By coincidence, the rest of the Galaxy does this as well, but according to a strict set of rules. Human spacers come across a drifting wreckage that apparently contains the last remnants of the legendary Progenitors of all the species.
- Believable characters (Many people are fallable and not all the hero's live and triumph... there is suffering along the way)
- Struggle, Adversity, Death and Triumph (who likes it when you know exactly what's going on?)
- A great concept:
*Earth: A miniature black hole is in the earth's core - no one knows where it comes from, or how to keep it from killing everyone. People want to use it as a weapon, as our savior and as a God. Fantastic concepts of environmentalism, applied technology, personal relations and struggle.
*Heart of the Comet: Astronauts go to Halley's comet to explore and mine. Racial tensions between genetically altered people and 'normal' people plague how the people on the comet interact for the years as well as the aggressive, bacterial/viral/worm like life forms that live in the comet's Core. Full of good, hard sci-fi with all sorts of well-researched technical concepts and terms.
*The Uplift Trilogy: Humans begin the process of genetically altering Dolphins and Chimps so we can work together on space travel and science. By coincidence, the rest of the Galaxy does this as well, but according to a strict set of rules. Human spacers come across a drifting wreckage that apparently contains the last remnants of the legendary Progenitors of all the species.
- Believable characters (Many people are fallable and not all the hero's live and triumph... there is suffering along the way)
- Struggle, Adversity, Death and Triumph (who likes it when you know exactly what's going on?)
