(urth) OT: Hard SF Niven (was "Memorare" hardcover)

Matthew Groves matthewalangroves at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 22:00:38 PST 2007


On Dec 7, 2007 12:22 PM, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> > [Niven is] not truly a hard SF writer, though he puts on
> > such
> > a good show that most people don't notice he's swept the fossil record
> > under the rug, for example.
>
> Do you mean the Protector-breeder origin of humans?

I did have that reaction when I read Protector:  If the breeders where
homo habilis, then why does homo habilis seem to share ancestory with
other Terran species?

However, from what I've read of Niven's, his greatest sin against
scientific plausibility, in my opinion, is "luck breeding."



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