Hearts and Minds: An Ambivalent Review of “Project Hail Mary”
'All the people emphasizing the scientific rigor of #ProjectHailMary , all those praising it as a work of #HardSF —I’d argue they’re cheapening the concept, at the very least.'
Hearts and Minds: An Ambivalent Review of “Project Hail Mary”
'All the people emphasizing the scientific rigor of #ProjectHailMary , all those praising it as a work of #HardSF —I’d argue they’re cheapening the concept, at the very least.'
Peter Watts pastwi się nad "Projektem Hail Mary". A dokładniej nad odczytywaniem go jako hard SF.
And the 15-degree temperature drop that's supposed to be an extinction-level event. The last glacial maximum was about that.
Just... basic worldbuilding.
It's annoying me more than it should, probably. But this is supposed to be hard sci-fi, right? #ScienceFiction #HardSF #BookCritique
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I’ve been busy and pretty much offline this week. Anyway, here’s part 15 of my most ambitious novel so far:
https://jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-reflectors-of-consensual-050
#consciousness #sciencefiction #novel #SpaceOpera #hardSF #ambitious
💥 E-BOOK DEAL For the love of space, don't miss this deal! *CRITICAL MASS (sequel to Delta-V) is now $1.99 for a limited time only!
*Typically retails for $14.99
Humanity is returning to the moon, and the future feels like it has finally started...
...and I just published a novel set in that future, based on Artemis. Check it out!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1
https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004
#moon #Artemis #fiction #books #NASA #scifi #sciencefiction #future #moonbase #space #hardsF
#DamienWalter predigt, dass auch sogenannter Realismus oder #HardSF eben ›nur‹ #Fantasy ist. Fantasy, Phantastik, ist der Grundmodus. Und das meiste, was Menschen damit machen, sind eben Märchen zum Traumeverarbeiten, Selbsttrost, Selbstanspornung oder Selbsttäuschung — von Täuschung, Trost, Ansporn anderer ganz zu schweigen.
In Echt sind nicht Statuen-Ruinen »Seht meine Werke, Mächt’ge, und erbebt!«, sondern Zone Rogue, KZ Dachau oder Tschernobyl. Leider.
https://youtu.be/4x6LL75y0Ek

It's official...my new hard SF novel Moonbase Armstrong is now available for sale in Kindle and paperback! Venture into the future of NASA's Artemis program as a terrible accident throws the first permanently manned moonbase into disarray...
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Moonbase-Armstrong-Robert-B-Marks/dp/1997846004
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWKPYLN1
#fiction #books #hardSF #sciencefiction #scifi #Artemis #NASA #moon #moonbase
Underway to a culmination that will speculate about how consciousness arises in the human brain (starting next week, these things need and take time):
https://jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-reflectors-of-consensual-81b
This one could use some love. The preceding post about metal got 10 x the views, and I’ll be darned if I knew why:
https://jetse.substack.com/p/the-three-reflectors-of-consensual-48e
#sciencefiction #novel #spaceopera #consciousness #AI #hardSF