Nice touch. Well done boffins and Reynolds
Boffins publish SciFi story to announce exoplanet find
Boffins from the Queen Mary University of London have chosen an unusual way to announce a new exoplanet find, commissioning a short story describing the recently-revealed worlds. There's a paper about the find too, and a promise of more to come in a future issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The …
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Thursday 5th June 2014 10:44 GMT Gordon 10
If you are referring to Star Carrier 3 singularity - apart from the vague connection with Kapteyn I'm not sure what your point is.
Reynolds is high end Hard-ish Sci-Fi.
Keith/Douglas - seems more Journeyman Mil-sci fi from a quick google.
ie totally different sub-genres.
Would you complain about every book that mentions alpha centuari?
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Thursday 5th June 2014 23:56 GMT Frumious Bandersnatch
Re: Clever
Reynolds is a boffin himself or ex-boffin
Indeed he is, and I've read some of his books.
I don't care much for the quality of proof-reading, though. For example:
* unmeasurably old -> immeasurably old
* eeking out its nuclear lifetime -> eking out ...
* Cities as mute as sphinxes -> sphinges (ok, I'm being picky)
Man, the quality of AIs they send into space these days ...
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