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Isaac Asimov’s “Pebble in the Sky” Book Review
Is it weird to have a post reviewing a 70-year-old book? Not sure, but let’s find out. ***Mild spoilers*** Background Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov in 1950. It takes place in the Foundation Universe, thousands of years before the original Foundation book but after the events of the…
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Writing Hard Science Fiction: Lessons from The Three-Body Problem
I’ve never been a huge fan hard science fiction–that is scifi that goes into great technical detail about how the technology in their story works. Hard science fiction is something like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or any of Jules Verne’s other works that give so many technical specifications that you feel like you could…