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Good lord the prose is gawd awful. Almost parody levels of tediousness.
by ctrlp 6y ago
Good lord the prose is gawd awful. Almost parody levels of tediousness.
- wging 6y agoI don't quite agree, but this is very early qntm. You might appreciate his later work. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
- ctrlp 6y agoMy aversion to this as fiction is there is so much attention to the fictional science and so little to the fictional people. I could just go read futurist prognostications to get the tech part without having to wade through what reads like the proceedings of the IEEE. It's the typical glaring fault of bad sci-fi: it paints the tech photorealistically but paints the people like cartoons. It bores me to tears.
- dTal 6y agoIf you're referring to the story wging just linked, I suspect you may have skimmed it or missed the point of it. The story is entirely human-focused, and the dry "IEEE" style is an intentional rhetorical device, reflective of the text's status as a "future document", designed to convey a certain social attitude. A similar idea forms the basis of a typical SCP story.