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Over at Ars Technica, Annalee Newitz has an interesting review of John Scalzi's latest novel, The Collapsing Empire:
In his new novel The Collapsing Empire, bestselling writer John Scalzi builds a fascinating new interstellar civilization in order to destroy it. The Interdependency is a thousand-year-old interplanetary trade partnership in humanity's distant future. Its member planets were once connected to Earth by the Flow, a natural feature of space-time that allows ships to enter a kind of subspace zone. Once there, they can circumvent the unbreakable speed of light to travel between stars that are dozens of light years apart. What could go wrong?
Unfortunately, nobody is asking that question. Humanity has created an entire civilization that relies on the Flow and its "shoals," where ships can enter and exit. Planets are colonized purely based on their proximity to the shoals, not on habitability. The result is not unlike a medieval trade guild society whose populace happens to live in domed cities, buried caves, and artificial habitats, completely dependent on trade for resources.
The problem is that the Flow, like most natural features, has a tendency to change shape over time. As the novel opens, our protagonist, Cardenia, recently crowned emperox of the Interdependency, has just made a nasty discovery. She learns that her late father has secretly been funding a Flow physicist who has determined that every planet in the Interdependency will be cut off from the Flow within the next decade.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:29PM (6 children)
that grinning gremlin at the bottom of the ars article?
To think, even just 20 years ago, shit that looked like that didn't survive high school.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:39PM (1 child)
Mod parent -1 Deplorable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:54PM
Only if you utter the Deplorable Word [wikia.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @09:00PM
Hey grandma, times change. Hate to break it to you.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @10:47PM (1 child)
Well, fuck anyone who doesn't conform to your standards of "normality", eh"?
What a cunt you are. I'm surprised you can even manage to work a computer.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 01 2017, @12:50AM
I don't consider the author abnormal-looking, and personally I rather like colored hair.
What the author is, though, is the typical rude and angry short-haired Jew dyke; a pretty common sub-demographic, especially in the tech industry. People like her are the ones who slithered their way into big game studios and give interviews about diversity and inclusion and all of the romance in their games is Black man/White woman couples. They wear star of David necklaces you can identify only at close range, stink of body odor and other than their hair coloring are nastily low-maintenance, and are the reason why pretty every media outlet and gaming studio sucks now. They're basically the Amy Schumers of the tech and journalism industries, nobodies rocketed to stardom overnight because they know (and quite possibly blew) the Levi Hirsches and other directors of advertising within their agencies.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 01 2017, @12:42AM
Probably one of the many reasons why Arstechnica, like every other formerly-respected media outlet, is churning out garbage and inserting leftist bullshit and Trump hit-pieces into every goddamn article.
And like all obnoxious loudmouth dyke Jews, she likely has latent anger from daddy issues and landed that gig only because she knows another Jew higher-up in the food chain -- though calling her "she" is generous, it's impossible to even guess what she has between her legs without having been there yourself.
Wanna volunteer?