(urth) Hard SF

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

I agree with him too. But Urth is still not "hard SF."




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>I'd tend to agree with Lee here. -DOJP
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>On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>David Stockhoff: We're not talking about hard SF here.
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>>Just for the sake of discussion, I'll disagree. Perhaps Wolfe isn't diamond-hard
>>but I'd give him ruby- or sapphire- on the MOhs scale. I think he makes a
>>sincere attempt in most of his work, as the quote below illustrates.
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>>Where fantasy writers are content to give us shape changers without explanation,
>>Wolfe provides us with a sponge cellular analogy for Tzadkiel and flexible bones
>>and muscles, make-up and hypnotic abilities for Inhumi.
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>>If the Inhumi really fly through space I'd want more than the skimpy evidence we
>>are provided (and less evidence for their lying nature).
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>>>Nick Gevers: Speaking as an engineer, how might the godling be constructed so as to
>>>walk as a giant on land, where the undines [submarine giantesses] cannot?
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>>>Gene Wolfe: There are a number of ways you could go. First, get rid of the notion that
>>>the godling is going to be proportioned like a human being. Changes in size always mean
>>>changes in build. (Dr. Crane touches on that.) A man fifty feet tall, proportioned like
>>>you or me, would sink into the ground a lot -- had you thought of that? Take a look at
>>>the really big dinosaurs. Bone density could be increased, and the legs and pelvis made
>>>more massive, and so on
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