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by magicmystery » August 21st, 2004, 10:46 pm
I am torn between authors for my favourite fiction....
I am a Sci Fi Fan....
Greg Bear is a reincarnate Frank Herbert and I love them both,
and then there's Arthur C. Clarke
OK here's the books...
Greg Bear's Eon series....
Frank Herbert's Destination Void and "Ship" series ( I Know he's more famous for "Dune" but I like these other's better....)
And Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth.....
All of these books examine our tabos, religious phobias and the effects they have on our economies and environments, ecology.
Eon deals with a society locked in a hollowed out asteroid after a nuclear war makes earth uninhabitable... It has time traveled back 1000 years to just months before the beginning of the war.... but in the examination of the asteroid, our astronauts make a discovery... that the internal mechanism constucted by its inhabitants extends the asteroid's internal ecosystem into infinity.... and the society that has been created within the confines of this "Mile-long" rock in space dubbed "the Pototo" for it's outward appearance.
Frank Herbert has a knack for getting to the root of religion. In this series, he explores the interactions of a crew faced with certain death unless they can create a sentient computer (artificial intelligence) who dubs itself "Ship" and insists on the "WorShip" of itself over many millenia and affects on the ecosystem of a new planet called Pandora.
Arthur C. Clarke gives us a peak into a society created without the benefit or interference of religious references, tabos.... which makes life more peaceful and much more uneventful. Colonized by one of the last ships to leave Earth before her Sun went nova... life has been a tranquil paradise here until one of the slower evac ships from Earths first days of exodus arrives... with its library and a live crew....
All of these make for some long nights... and interesting dreams afterward.... at least for me....
Sherry
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