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I keep thinking about how the best science fiction is not always the book with
the biggest empire or the strangest machine.
Sometimes the part that stays with me is a small social idea. A custom, a law, a
job, a bad habit people carry into the future. The little background rule that
makes the whole world feel real.
Le Guin was good at that. So was Bradbury when he was not trying to explain
every wire in the wall. A story can have rockets and planets, but if the people
still feel like people, that is usually the part I remember.
What are some small sci-fi details that stuck with you longer than the big plot?
Being a fan of Hard SF, I've read a lot of authors like Robert L. Forward and
Niven. But one thing that always stuck with me was the character Randy Hunter in
Time Master. Forward wrote him as if he were predicting Elon Musk. It's crazy.
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Darth Yoda
"Debugging the galaxy, one bite at a time."
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Forward could be strangely sharp about the kind of person who thinks engineering
muscle can solve half the world's problems. Randy Hunter has that restless,
sell-the-future confidence, though Forward was usually better at showing both
the appeal and the blind spots. #SciFi#HardSF
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