The sudden disappearance of the highly problematic genetically engineered Superchimps that people were basically using as slaves in Rendezvous With Rama - and that's a lot more puzzling.Īre we supposed to just assume that Superchimp Burgers are what sustained the humans crammed into those lovingly-described shanty towns? Y'know what didn't get a 14-page high-school-thesis-styled infodump to explain it? Seriously, you could've got away with a couple of lines of dialogue with some person bitching about how shitty their equipment is and how it could've been better if it weren't for 'The Collapse'.Īnd I'm sure that any decent writer would've done so, but Gentry Lee does not murder his darlings, it seems. all to explain why technology had not advanced much in the years since the last Rama craft came through the system.

There was this lengthy 14 page - I counted - description of collapse and the rise and fall of shanty towns that had me thinking it was Gentry Lee's high school essay on socioeconomic decline. This is not the fucking Belgariad, y'know! Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know!Īnd Gentry Lee was clearly being paid by the word as they were overly-verbose 'door stoppers' more like books from a fantasy series than the original Rendezvous With Rama. Imaginary Mindscapes - The Art of Imagination.The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons NOT allowed).The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons allowed).Ghost in the Shell and Ghost_in_the_Shell.Previously interviewed authors in the Ask an SF Author series: To write spoilers in comments, use the following method: (/s 'Darth Vader is Yoda's father')Īward Winning SF author Nancy Kress answers questions from the Reddit Scifi Community If you see a title with a spoiler in it, downvote it as hard as you can and then message the moderators. PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN YOUR SUBMISSION TITLE. New Rule: This rule was stupid and it's gone.Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer.

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