SF Masterworks?

[Pingu]

two words

Larry Niven

 

[HAL9000]

Culture is better than ringworld, Mr Banks has said he nicked the ring world idea and made a great story.

 

[Pingu]

it was more than just ringworld though that I like about Niven

its the whole KNown space thing, slavers, protectors, kzinn etc etc. The consistancy in the "science" was, for its time, fantastic.

and if you were evre into wargaiming then the barsoom project etc were very good. Though not too sure if you were not into it that they would be so good.

Niven gave me one of my favourite sayings

"think of it as evolution in action"

the mote in gods eye is aslso a classic.

I like larry niven as you may have guessed

 

[Bernie Gunther]

His mate Pournelle is a bit of a nazi though. Remember that bit in Lucifer's Hammer where the noble American white people triumph over adversity by making mustard gas to use on the black people (who have turned cannibal)?

Stuff like that always seems to happen in Pournelle's books, or the co-written ones.

 

[Pingu]

His mate Pournelle is a bit of a nazi though. Remember that bit in Lucifer's Hammer where the noble American white people triumph over adversity by making mustard gas to use on the black people (who have turned cannibal)?

Stuff like that always seems to happen in Pournelle's books, or the co-written ones.

you know.. i never really noticed that until now. am trying to remember whatthe main characters were in the cannibal group, nassor was certainly a bit sterotypical, hook? possibly am trying to remember the evangalists character.

cnat say i have really noticed much in the other books either tbh but then i am not looking for it

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Well, to be fair I think that's the most extreme case.

 

[ChrisC]

Sorry if I was a little snippy. But why not start with "Which of the SF Masterworks are worth reading?"

Which ones are worth reading, btw?

Yeah your right, I guess it was named wrong.

 

[Stigmata]

Well, to be fair I think that's the most extreme case.

There was a villainous Arab in the two Mote books, although in fairness he was pretty much the hero of the piece by the end. And there was the romance between the black student and the inuit guy in the second book. Could have been Niven's input there.