Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA Date: 28 May 2024 14:01:30 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="25931"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1924 D wrote: > >Well, I do like Rands Atlas Shrugged and We the living, but that is of >course not SF. I'd call Atlas Shrugged more fantasy than SF, but the deus ex machina of the free power technology has some SF elements. I have to admit that I liked the book even though it was totally unrealistic. However, it has a bad reputation because of the number of people who believe it could come true and that miraculous technologies just drop from the sky. Although, now that I think about it, I think that for most people, they have the general perception that miraculous technologies DO drop from the sky because they never see the enormous effort in developing them and only see them when they arrive complete and functional on the market. >In terms of SF, Neal Stephenson I appreciate, the early stuff, and >Heinlein as well. The moon is a harsh mistress is good. > >Ohh... and then there was another one... Poul Andersons Nicholas van Rijn >books, those are quite nice as well. =) > >Anything else, based on that, you could recommend? Ever read the Gateway series by Pohl? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."