georgefrowny

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   by georgefrowny 1y ago

   Both Gollancz (SF Masterworks) and Orbit (most Banks books) are ultimately owned by Lagardère/Hachette. Presumably they could wrangle the rights if they really wanted. I suppose they just don't see any need to republish Banks book
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   by georgefrowny 1y ago

   I found Railsea really fun. It's a bit silly and didn't take itself very seriously. Somehow it feels like it could have been a novelisation of a British 1960/70s stop motion TV show like the Clangers.
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   by georgefrowny 1y ago

   I know what you mean, but the boundary can get blurry in some cases. A Canticle for Liebowitz for example mostly feels like some kind of fantasy but for the fact that the reader knows it's set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.
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   by georgefrowny 1y ago

   Second the short stories. Axiomatic has some great ones too with concepts that really stuck with me. And if you like that, Phase Space by Stephen Baxter feels very similar.
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   by georgefrowny 1y ago

   There was a whole drama over exactly this in the Cold War. Permissive Action Links were deeply unpopular with the military because they put control of the weapons with the government, rather than with the relevant commanders. Even when fina
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   by georgefrowny 1y ago

   Why would it not be "human reviews the image that the AI said was a gun"?