03 Thursday Dec 2015
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Arthur C Clarke, Cyrano de Bergerac, Douglas Adams, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Fred Hoyle, H.G. Wells, Hal Clement, Hugo Gernsback, Iain Banks, James Blish, James Tiptree Jr, Johannes Kepler, John W. Campbell, Jules Verne, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson
This is another of my Cognitive Mapping columns. In this instance it first appeared in Vector 190 (November-December 1996). Continue reading
02 Monday Sep 2013
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Arthur C Clarke, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Greg Egan, Hal Clement, Iain Banks, Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Tom Godwin
My discussion of ‘The Cold Equations’ yesterday seemed to generate quite a bit of interest, so I thought I’d follow it up with this article, in which I consider why I characterise hard sf as intrinsically right wing. ‘Hard Right’ was first published in Argentus 8, December 2008. Continue reading
