Comments on: Congrats to John Scalzi http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Durtschi http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html/comment-page-1#comment-3148 Robert Durtschi Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:50:25 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html#comment-3148 <p>The thing that always bothers me about books like "Old Mans War" is the apparent necessity of murdering the old body. I've seen the same thing in SF that involved mind transfer to a new planet. The mind is placed in a new body and the old body destroyed. They never explain the necessity of destroying the old body. There is no mention that the old body would somehow be non-functional after making a copy of the brain, or whatever it is they copy.</p> The thing that always bothers me about books like “Old Mans War” is the apparent necessity of murdering the old body. I’ve seen the same thing in SF that involved mind transfer to a new planet. The mind is placed in a new body and the old body destroyed. They never explain the necessity of destroying the old body. There is no mention that the old body would somehow be non-functional after making a copy of the brain, or whatever it is they copy.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html/comment-page-1#comment-3147 John Scalzi Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:25:59 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html#comment-3147 <p>Thanks!</p> Thanks!

]]> By: Chris Yeh http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html/comment-page-1#comment-3146 Chris Yeh Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:46:31 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/03/congrats_to_joh.html#comment-3146 <p>I'm a big fan of Scalzi, including his first novel, "Agent to the Stars," which is a minor classic in the business satire genre, and is available for free online:<br /> http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2005/11/novel-idea.html</p> <p>I also cannot echo enough the recommendation that people read Bujold's work. Her characterization, ability to avoid cliche, and examination of real personal issues rather than grandiose causes rank her, in my opinion, among the best authors writing today across all genres.</p> <p>It is a shame that an untalented hack like David Weber, who couldn't write his way out of a paper bag, is the current king of Science Fiction sales. Weber's work isn't even sci-fi, merely an inferior clone of the Horatio Hornblower series, moved into the future and laced with wretched cliches (though he surely earns the designation of the Tom Clancy of sci-fi for his loving descriptions of hardware being blown up).</p> I’m a big fan of Scalzi, including his first novel, “Agent to the Stars,” which is a minor classic in the business satire genre, and is available for free online:
http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2005/11/novel-idea.html

I also cannot echo enough the recommendation that people read Bujold’s work. Her characterization, ability to avoid cliche, and examination of real personal issues rather than grandiose causes rank her, in my opinion, among the best authors writing today across all genres.

It is a shame that an untalented hack like David Weber, who couldn’t write his way out of a paper bag, is the current king of Science Fiction sales. Weber’s work isn’t even sci-fi, merely an inferior clone of the Horatio Hornblower series, moved into the future and laced with wretched cliches (though he surely earns the designation of the Tom Clancy of sci-fi for his loving descriptions of hardware being blown up).

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