At last!

I'm surely not the only one to think that everyone that #Superman ever rescues from falling off a building dies instantly in his arms, horrifically, as surely as if they had hit the ground.

But this is possibly the first time (I don't remember #LarryNiven addressing this point in his famous essay.) that I've come across another person explicitly observing the same thing.

People twig that the flying involves enormous, sometimes infinite, amounts of energy. But they don't twig the stresses to a normal human body from hitting two arms of steel at terminal velocity and almost instantly slowing to zero velocity with respect to the ground.

No emergency service or stunt person ever proposed catching people falling off buildings with a fork-lift.

Don't let them tell you that superhero comics are Sci-Fi, kids. There's no science involved. It's *all* magic. (-:

#physics

Was passiert, wenn medizinischer Fortschritt mit einer faschistoiden Sozialpolitik zusammenfällt? Und wohin führt uns die quasireligiöse KI-Begeisterung, wenn wir sie konsequent zu Ende denken?
Zwei gefährliche Visionen von #LarryNiven und #JohnBrunner, die ich für #carcosa ins Deutsche übersetzen durfte.

#buch #literatur #lesen #buchstodon #sciencefiction

@angelastella
#JohnBrunner with Eptification - with a bad result - and #JoeHaldeman with some sort of overlays in #WorldsApart and assorted authors with "memory tapes and of course #TheMatrix "now I do!"

And in a less friendly way #LarryNiven with #Corpsicles and #RichardMorgan with the #DigitallyStoredHumans and #DigitallyFreightedHumans and uploading into a sleeve.

And a bunch more.

#SciFi

Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England" von #BrandonSanderson. Dass "John" den alten Vornamen und das alte Leben hinter sich lassen möchte ist allzu verständlich. Dass Brandon Sanderson nicht #RobertShea ("Mathemagie") und #LarryNiven ("Der Flug des Pferdes") als frühere Meister des Genres mit vergleichbarer Story erwähnt ist mir unverständlich, so will zumindest ich es tun. #bookstodon #fantasyromane #amreadingfantasy
#sciencefiction #LarryNiven Der Autor Larry Niven wurde am heutigen Tag, dem 30. April, im Jahr 1938 geboren.

Titelbild von N. N. für
"Das Doppelhirn" von Larry Niven (World of Ptavvs)
Übersetzt von Leni Sobez
Bastei-Lübbe SF 21097, 1977
(AmeS)

#sciencefiction #BasteiLübbe #LarryNiven

Titelbild von Eddie Jones für
"Ringwelt" von Larry Niven (Ringworld)
Übersetzt von Bodo Baumann
Bastei-Lübbe SF 15/16, 1972
(AmeS)

#sciencefiction #BasteiLübbe #LarryNiven #EddieJones

Born this day: 04/30/1938
Larry Niven is an American hard SF writer. His novel Ringworld (1970), a vast artificial habitat circling a distant sun and set in his Known Space future history, swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He won four more Hugos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven

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Art by Dean Ellis

"There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is ‘idiot’."

~ Larry Niven, born today, 1938.

#LarryNiven #Quote #Today

L'Anneau monde de Larry Niven (Prix Hugo 1971) est au menu de notre émission Sense of Wonder !

Ce classique de la SF a-t-il bien vieillit ? Une émission à écouter sur toutes les plateformes. Vous en gardez quels souvenirs ?

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