#larryniven — Public Fediverse posts

Recupero le vecchie recensioni, 1

Larry Niven - Il difensore (Protector, 1973)

Leggo sempre volentieri i libri di Larry Niven, che reputo uno dei migliori scrittori di fantascienza spaziale degli anni Sessanta e Settanta: della sua vasta produzione apprezzo in particolare l’ambientazione aperta dello «Spazio conosciuto», che solitamente mescola ottime idee e...

Trovi l'articolo completo qui: https://www.libripulp.it/2026/06/20/larry-niven-il-difensore/

#Libri #Fantascienza #Urania #LarryNiven #70s #anni70 #Libripulp #recensioni

Was passiert, wenn medizinischer Fortschritt mit einer faschistoiden Sozialpolitik zusammenfällt? Und wohin führt uns die quasireligiöse KI-Begeisterung, wenn wir sie konsequent zu Ende denken?
Zwei gefährliche Visionen von #LarryNiven und #JohnBrunner, die ich für #carcosa ins Deutsche übersetzen durfte.

#buch #literatur #lesen #buchstodon #sciencefiction

@angelastella
#JohnBrunner with Eptification - with a bad result - and #JoeHaldeman with some sort of overlays in #WorldsApart and assorted authors with "memory tapes and of course #TheMatrix "now I do!"

And in a less friendly way #LarryNiven with #Corpsicles and #RichardMorgan with the #DigitallyStoredHumans and #DigitallyFreightedHumans and uploading into a sleeve.

And a bunch more.

#SciFi

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/07/09/harnessing-the-full-potential-of-science-fiction/
Found an interesting talk on science fiction and how it might help with the meaning crisis. I focused on the last portion because it felt relevant to me in particular. Maybe some others can identify.
#Books, #Culture, #Science, #ChinaMieville, #DamienWalters, #Fantasy, #Futurism, #HardScienceFiction, #HugoAwards, #IsaacArthur, #JeffVandermeer, #JohnCWright, #JohnVervaeke, #LarryNiven, #Mythology, #NKJemisin, #SciFi, #Science, #sciencefiction #SF