RE: Have you read these books?
March 14, 2011 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2011 at 4:00 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Well, it's a lot like Star Wars in the way that you can't have too much "real" science, as it would take away from the story.
Star wars was enjoyable as a breezy 2 hours of mental passivity interrupted by moderately funny sight gags in front of the boob tube. But I probably won't enjoy it if I associated with a slightly more serious effort of actually reading the book
(March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: What are the chances that the entire universe would operate on Earthly science?
I am too pendantic to overlook the fact that humans can't even exist, much less evolve, where laws revealed by science operates just very slightly differently from how they do on earth.
(March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: That being said, there was a lot of Earth science (literally) in Dune. If you're looking for "The Time Traveler" type science, you won't find it, but if you don't mind a little climatology and political science, Dune doesn't lack for that.
I have to give it another try.
