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Crítica de 'El efecto práctica' de David Brin: una idea brillante pero una novela fallida
📰 Título original: El efecto práctica, de David Brin
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Crítica de 'El efecto práctica' de David Brin: una idea brillante pero una novela fallida
📰 Título original: El efecto práctica, de David Brin
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Crítica de 'El efecto práctica' de David Brin: una idea brillante pero una novela fallida
📰 Título original: El efecto práctica, de David Brin
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Crítica de 'El efecto práctica' de David Brin: una idea brillante pero una novela fallida
📰 Título original: El efecto práctica, de David Brin
🤖 IA: No es clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: No es clickbait ✅Ver resumen IA completo https://es.killbait.com/critica-de-el-efecto-practica-de-david-brin-una-idea-brillante-pero-una-novela-fallida.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait_es.mastodon_social
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Je je, me pasó lo mismo con "La mano izquierda", mucha caminata por páramos helados.
En cambio, de LeGuin, me encantaron: "Los desposeidos", "Un mago de Terramar" (inspiración de Harry Potter), "Las tumbas de Atuán" y "El nombre del mundo es bosque" (inspiración de la peli Avatar).
"La costa más lejana" y "Tehanu" me gustaron menos que las otras novelas de la saga de #Terramar, pero están bien.
"El mundo de Roccanon" resulta interesantilla.
El escritor #DavidBrin escribió "Tiempo de gloria", una novela ambientada en el Ekumen de #LeGuin y en la que también juega con modificar el funcionamiento biológico de los sexos. Le añade ese toque suyo de novela de aventuras, que a ratos la hace parecer una adrenalínica novela de piratas. Úrsula K. LeGuin ha sido imitadísima.
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Je je, me pasó lo mismo con "La mano izquierda", mucha caminata por páramos helados.
En cambio, de LeGuin, me encantaron: "Los desposeidos", "Un mago de Terramar" (inspiración de Harry Potter), "Las tumbas de Atuán" y "El nombre del mundo es bosque" (inspiración de la peli Avatar).
"La costa más lejana" y "Tehanu" me gustaron menos que las otras novelas de la saga de #Terramar, pero están bien.
"El mundo de Roccanon" resulta interesantilla.
El escritor #DavidBrin escribió "Tiempo de gloria", una novela ambientada en el Ekumen de #LeGuin y en la que también juega con modificar el funcionamiento biológico de los sexos. Le añade ese toque suyo de novela de aventuras, que a ratos la hace parecer una adrenalínica novela de piratas. Úrsula K. LeGuin ha sido imitadísima.
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Everyone is excited about the Artemis Mission, but Astro-physicist and sci-fi author David Brin has a different take on the matter. He coins the word "moondoggle" which IMO is just *chef's kiss* #davidbrin #artemis #astrophysics #nasa #projecthailmary #space #startrek
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/cancel-useful-lunar-gateway-and-drop.html -
Everyone is excited about the Artemis Mission, but Astro-physicist and sci-fi author David Brin has a different take on the matter. He coins the word "moondoggle" which IMO is just *chef's kiss* #davidbrin #artemis #astrophysics #nasa #projecthailmary #space #startrek
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/cancel-useful-lunar-gateway-and-drop.html -
#DavidBrin : « WHY we are at war again? Ten reasons not in the news. »
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-we-are-at-war-again-turns-out-seven.html
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RE: https://dice.camp/@martin/115855314835952424
I finished this a few days ago. It's a very interesting and ambitious work of sci-fi. I didn't love it, but I would still recommend it. Let's talk about it a bit. 🧵
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RE: https://dice.camp/@martin/115855314835952424
I finished this a few days ago. It's a very interesting and ambitious work of sci-fi. I didn't love it, but I would still recommend it. Let's talk about it a bit. 🧵
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@skewray After reading #GregBear ’s Blood Music, we now employ trillions of agents….
Apologies — an earlier version attributed that novel to #DavidBrin
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@skewray After reading #GregBear ’s Blood Music, we now employ trillions of agents….
Apologies — an earlier version attributed that novel to #DavidBrin
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But, so far, I'm cautiously optimistic. In chapter one we said "dolphins are like this" - but then in chapter two we had a dolphin from a minority culture / ethnic group who isn't like that and struggles with his place among the other dolphins.
My main concern so far is that none of the characters seem very likeable! Hopefully that improves.
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But, so far, I'm cautiously optimistic. In chapter one we said "dolphins are like this" - but then in chapter two we had a dolphin from a minority culture / ethnic group who isn't like that and struggles with his place among the other dolphins.
My main concern so far is that none of the characters seem very likeable! Hopefully that improves.
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There are lots of other more powerful alien races and the galaxy seems organised on semi-feudal lines with client and "patron" species. So there is the looming question of how sensitively this novel will handle questions of race.
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There are lots of other more powerful alien races and the galaxy seems organised on semi-feudal lines with client and "patron" species. So there is the looming question of how sensitively this novel will handle questions of race.
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Now reading #StartideRising by #DavidBrin.
Only a couple of chapters into this 1980s novel, but I'm intrigued already. Humans have uplifted dolphins to equal intelligence with themselves and the focus is on a ship crewed and captained by dolphins, but with a handful of human crew.
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Now reading #StartideRising by #DavidBrin.
Only a couple of chapters into this 1980s novel, but I'm intrigued already. Humans have uplifted dolphins to equal intelligence with themselves and the focus is on a ship crewed and captained by dolphins, but with a handful of human crew.
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Just re-read #DavidBrin #Existence - what a #SciFi tour-de-force :-)
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Just re-read #DavidBrin #Existence - what a #SciFi tour-de-force :-)
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Happy Birthday, David Brin!
Zur Feier seines 75. Geburtstags ist hier nochmal ein Rückblick auf eine der allerersten 'sf-Lit"-Buchbesprechungen:
"Sternenflut" - immer noch ein sehr lesenswerter Roman des Science-Fiction-Altmeisters!
>> https://www.sf-lit.de/rezensionen/rezensionen-das-archiv/sternenflut/
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Happy Birthday, David Brin!
Zur Feier seines 75. Geburtstags ist hier nochmal ein Rückblick auf eine der allerersten 'sf-Lit"-Buchbesprechungen:
"Sternenflut" - immer noch ein sehr lesenswerter Roman des Science-Fiction-Altmeisters!
>> https://www.sf-lit.de/rezensionen/rezensionen-das-archiv/sternenflut/
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THE UPLIFT WAR (1987)
Acrylic on Canvas - 26" x 34”The first of two covers that I illustrated for the Uplift novels by David Brin. In his universe, it is understood that no species can reach sentience without being “uplifted” by a more advanced race. 1/3
#sciencefiction #illustration #bookcover #bantamspectra #davidbrin
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why not get all the #Democrats in GOP districts to re-register as Republicans, which would (for one thing) protect them from being purged out of the voter rolls. But also, it would truly screw up the radicals' Radicatization-via-Primary tactic. And weaken gerrymandering, -- #DavidBrin
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https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/twenty-things-about-mess-that-no-one.html
Twenty things about The Mess that no one has mentioned, so far. From #tariffs to #signalgate to #DOGE to #Houthis and...
#DavidBrin..."Always look at who benefits! So far it sure looks like Putin and Xi.
...No one in media is touting that the USA was already experiencing a renaissance of manufacturing.
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How about we use tariffs to pressure countries to stop buying Russian oil, till Putin withdraws from Ukraine? And punish countries like Panama ..." -
"Nature is made of layers of competition that when you go up a layer, looks like cooperation ... everything's killing everything else. But when you rise up a layer, and squint, and look at the ecosystem as a whole, it looks fantastically synergistic and cooperative.
The human brain and mind are vastly internally competitive. You are not one thing, you are many. But what comes out, quite often, is a truly beautiful person.
Societies can do that."
#DavidBrin, 2023
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"Nature is made of layers of competition that when you go up a layer, looks like cooperation ... everything's killing everything else. But when you rise up a layer, and squint, and look at the ecosystem as a whole, it looks fantastically synergistic and cooperative.
The human brain and mind are vastly internally competitive. You are not one thing, you are many. But what comes out, quite often, is a truly beautiful person.
Societies can do that."
#DavidBrin, 2023
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"If you are a libertarian and you believe in the power of markets ... how can you be so stupid as to not also be a socialist?
If you believe that competitive markets are the way that we're creative, then you should be doing everything in your power to maximise the number of skilled, confident, unafraid, joyful market participants. In which case poverty is a crime against libertarianism."
#DavidBrin, 2023
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/256-david-brin
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"If you are a libertarian and you believe in the power of markets ... how can you be so stupid as to not also be a socialist?
If you believe that competitive markets are the way that we're creative, then you should be doing everything in your power to maximise the number of skilled, confident, unafraid, joyful market participants. In which case poverty is a crime against libertarianism."
#DavidBrin, 2023
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/256-david-brin
(1/2)
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All of this reminds me of this great read:
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All of this reminds me of this great read:
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David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
#ycombinator #David_Brin #Contrary_Brin #human_evolution #transparency #privacy #openness #security #surveillance #sousveillance #science_fiction #scifi #sci_fi #speaker #public_speaker #fiction #writer #uplift #kiln #novelist #futurist #author #DavidBrin -
David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
#ycombinator #David_Brin #Contrary_Brin #human_evolution #transparency #privacy #openness #security #surveillance #sousveillance #science_fiction #scifi #sci_fi #speaker #public_speaker #fiction #writer #uplift #kiln #novelist #futurist #author #DavidBrin -
David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness
https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
#ycombinator #David_Brin #Contrary_Brin #human_evolution #transparency #privacy #openness #security #surveillance #sousveillance #science_fiction #scifi #sci_fi #speaker #public_speaker #fiction #writer #uplift #kiln #novelist #futurist #author #DavidBrin -
David Brin – The Dogma of Otherness
https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html
#ycombinator #David_Brin #Contrary_Brin #human_evolution #transparency #privacy #openness #security #surveillance #sousveillance #science_fiction #scifi #sci_fi #speaker #public_speaker #fiction #writer #uplift #kiln #novelist #futurist #author #DavidBrin -
Today on my Substack newsletter Assorted Nonsense... A Certain Sheltie, a review of David Brin's third non-fiction book Vivid Tomorrow's, and the usual Assorted Nonsense.
The newsletter is free to subscribe, unlike certain other newsletters, which, um, aren't free to subscribe. Subscribe to? Do you need the "to?" What does the Chicaco Manual of Style say about that? Oh great, there goes the next two hours...
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#DavidBrin and #NeilGaiman just better keep hanging in there awhile longer, is all I can say. 😢