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Sci-fi almost always succeeds because it manages to present interesting ideas. Often the writing can be quite poor, I remember some Asimov novels were character
by constantcrying 2y ago
Sci-fi almost always succeeds because it manages to present interesting ideas. Often the writing can be quite poor, I remember some Asimov novels were characters were just defined by a single thing that they believed.
To me the culture series fails, as it has no interesting ideas. "What if we solved every problem", just isn't an interesting premise. There is no interesting conflict that can even exist in the setting, the only thing that the author could come up with were religious fanatics. But the "interesting question" answered there wasn't more interesting then a New Atheist debating some Christian.
- mpalmer 2y ago> To me the culture series fails, as it has no interesting ideas. Just one of the subplots of Surface Detail involves a war conducted in virtual reality to decide the continued existence of virtual "hells" which advanced-but-repressive societies use to keep their citizens in line. > There is no interesting conflict that can even exist in the setting, the only thing that the author could come up with were religious fanatics How many of the books did you read before reaching this conclusion?
- constantcrying 2y ago>Just one of the subplots of Surface Detail involves a war conducted in virtual reality to decide the continued existence of virtual "hells" which advanced-but-repressive societies use to keep their citizens in line. That is not an interesting idea. >How many of the books did you read before reaching this conclusion? Consider Phlebas, Player of games, use of weapons. Which definitely was enough for me.