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The New York Times reports that Renowned fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin has died at age 88. From the article:
Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like "The Left Hand of Darkness" and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88.
Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause but said she had been in poor health for several months.
I'm not a fantasy fan (except for Prachett and Tolkien), but she will be missed none the less. I'm sure quite a few Soylents are fans of hers. Any author's loss is a loss to us all.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday January 25 2018, @12:26PM (2 children)
I would consider true science fiction writers to be people like Andy Weir (he admitted taking a few liberties with scientific fact in The Martian), Charles Sheffield (The Compleat McAndrew, among others), Jack McDevitt, Peter Watts, and Cory Doctorow. They tend to write stories with a setting like, "what would happen to society and human interaction if the following not-yet-proven-to-be-impossible technology was invented?".
The other side is futuristic space fantasy: Star Wars, Star Trek, writings by Frank Herbert, Peter Hamilton, David Drake, David Weber, and countless others. Space Opera.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday January 26 2018, @07:04PM (1 child)
Andy Weir (he admitted taking a few liberties with scientific fact in The Martian)
Citation? The only scientific mistake I saw in the book was that a 200 mph wind on Mars wouldn't knock a rocket down, but that wasn't known until the book was already a couple of years old. The cover has astronauts (who are mostly scientists and engineers) praised its accuracy greatly, as did astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson about the movie (the movie had a glaring error; sound is very different at different pressures. In the airlock the alarm would rise in pitch and volume as it was pressurized).
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(Score: 1) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday February 01 2018, @12:13PM
Interview with Andy Weir, he starts to go into the inaccuracies at about the 13:45 mark: https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/163 [twit.tv]