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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1840191" data-attributes="member: 5171">Rel, you wanna send that via Paypal, or...?Seriously, I don't wholly regret reading Lucifer's Hammer -- it's good for me to see how the other half writes -- but it should be clearly stated that this is idea fiction, proudly written by folks with an ironclad grasp of their science, a massively researched if -- then sheet for facts regarding how it would all work, some fantastic ideas about the physical effects and coping methods that would spring up in a cataclysmic event like this, and perhaps one sheet of binder paper devoted to the characters, each of whom most likely got one noun and one adjective to describe 'em.  Wealthy Hobbyist, Everyman Reporter, Homespun Mailman, Plucky... Female.This is not a wholesale slam.  Hard Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas, and this fully delivers on that front.  But as much as the lads like to sneer at the fantasy writers who don't spend five or ten pages talking about the hip-bone of the antelope and how it was the first instance of tool use, those of us in the sword-clanging aisle of the bookstore will occasionally raise eyebrows at the hard-sf people's adorable attempts at character.Except, of course, that in most bookstores, the science fiction and fantasy sections are combined, which makes just as much sense as combining the mystery section with the romance section.  end-hijack... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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