Comment on NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in SpaceparentComments−pbhjpbhj11ybuild a planet-sized spacecraft //We have one of those already, just need to work on the propulsion and life-support systems.−twic11yAnd we're back to the stories of Liu Cixin again:http://www.pornokitsch.com/2012/07/underground-reading-the-w...−anigbrowl11yHmm, that sounds very similar to this 2006 sci-fi novel: http://www.amazon.com/Cusp-Robert-A-Metzger/dp/0441013015It reads like William Gibson reimagined by Michael Bay but I ended being entertained despite myself.−twic11yOh wow, yes, definitely some overlap there! Judging purely from the blurb on Amazon, i'd say that the stories at least have rather different styles - Clarke-Baxter-style grand-scale hard SF vs Walter Jon Williams-style cyberpunk-tinged space opera.
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We have one of those already, just need to work on the propulsion and life-support systems.
And we're back to the stories of Liu Cixin again:
http://www.pornokitsch.com/2012/07/underground-reading-the-w...
Hmm, that sounds very similar to this 2006 sci-fi novel: http://www.amazon.com/Cusp-Robert-A-Metzger/dp/0441013015
It reads like William Gibson reimagined by Michael Bay but I ended being entertained despite myself.
Oh wow, yes, definitely some overlap there! Judging purely from the blurb on Amazon, i'd say that the stories at least have rather different styles - Clarke-Baxter-style grand-scale hard SF vs Walter Jon Williams-style cyberpunk-tinged space opera.