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I just came on to comment that. Larry Niven was a favorite of mine. Another great short story of his: Inconstant Moon (turned into an Outer Limits episode) abo
by spdustin 12y ago
I just came on to comment that. Larry Niven was a favorite of mine.
Another great short story of his: Inconstant Moon (turned into an Outer Limits episode) about a man who notices the moon is /unnaturally/ bright one night, and comes to the only rational conclusion: something has happened to the sun...
- ableal 12y agoLarry Niven himself was somewhat like an imagination burst in the SF field, back in the 1970s. There was all this gloomy, word perfect "new wave" prose mopping up the critical praise, and there was Niven pitching hard SF idea balls. Flash crowds, tides around neutron stars, Bussard ramjets, organ transplants gone wild, direct brain stimulation as a drug, ring worlds ...