Submitted by martinl (not verified) on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 14:38.
I've always been a big fan of the positive sci-fi, although my definition of that might me more like skynet than star trek, but I digress.. However seeing this list of books penned as a some of the few works in the sub-genre made me care enough to comment!
Please, go read something by Peter F. Hamilton for example Pandora's Star and it's sequel. Hamilton in my opinion is one of the few authors who can "realistictly" portray a future where humans are still humans (ie not trekies) and ultra-technology is readily available (to the new middle class at least).
On that note actually it's refreshing to read Hamilton's view from the other side of the singularity in the Void trillogy as opposed to the side of the 'monkeys' that was quite well portrayed in Accellerando.
I've always been a big fan of the positive sci-fi, although my definition of that might me more like skynet than star trek, but I digress.. However seeing this list of books penned as a some of the few works in the sub-genre made me care enough to comment!
Please, go read something by Peter F. Hamilton for example Pandora's Star and it's sequel. Hamilton in my opinion is one of the few authors who can "realistictly" portray a future where humans are still humans (ie not trekies) and ultra-technology is readily available (to the new middle class at least).
On that note actually it's refreshing to read Hamilton's view from the other side of the singularity in the Void trillogy as opposed to the side of the 'monkeys' that was quite well portrayed in Accellerando.