#niven — Public Fediverse posts
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Ich las #JohnNiven #DieFuckItListe in nur 2 Sitzungen durch: Ein Mann, der nichts mehr zu verlieren hat, läuft in den #USA 2026 Amok.
Ein etwas "anderes" #Buch für mich: sehr brutal, US Rache-Story, politische Aussage in einem fiktiven Roman.
Das Besondere: John #Niven schrieb in London das Buch mitten in Trumps 1. Amtszeit (ca. 2019) und extrapolierte für 2026 sehr viel korrekt: 2. Amtszeit, absolut durchgeknallte #Politik und #MAGA, brutale #ICE-Zugriffe, KZs, noch mehr Anlassgesetzgebung, ...
Dies war für mich sehr interessant, bis zum superspannenden Ende zu verfolgen. 2019 vermutlich als übertriebene Provokation erfunden und heute leider als Realität in den Tagesnachrichten.
TIL: Penguin hat einen Verlag namens "Heyne Hardcore" https://www.penguin.de/verlage/heyne-hardcore
Und dorthin passt es in dem Fall sehr gut.
Trotz extremer Brutalität eine #Leseempfehlung von mir.
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Ich las #JohnNiven #DieFuckItListe in nur 2 Sitzungen durch: Ein Mann, der nichts mehr zu verlieren hat, läuft in den #USA 2026 Amok.
Ein etwas "anderes" #Buch für mich: sehr brutal, US Rache-Story, politische Aussage in einem fiktiven Roman.
Das Besondere: John #Niven schrieb in London das Buch mitten in Trumps 1. Amtszeit (ca. 2019) und extrapolierte für 2026 sehr viel korrekt: 2. Amtszeit, absolut durchgeknallte #Politik und #MAGA, brutale #ICE-Zugriffe, KZs, noch mehr Anlassgesetzgebung, ...
Dies war für mich sehr interessant, bis zum superspannenden Ende zu verfolgen. 2019 vermutlich als übertriebene Provokation erfunden und heute leider als Realität in den Tagesnachrichten.
TIL: Penguin hat einen Verlag namens "Heyne Hardcore" https://www.penguin.de/verlage/heyne-hardcore
Und dorthin passt es in dem Fall sehr gut.
Trotz extremer Brutalität eine #Leseempfehlung von mir.
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@AkaSci
#SciFi The Martian Way by Isaac #Asimov has a large ice mass, I suppose more of a micro-moon than Ring particle, being collected and ferried back to Mars.
Haldeman's #WorldsApart has asteroids being shifted.
#TheMoonIsAHarshMistress has I think the first mass-driver and explores some of the consequences of being able to fling masses.Tangentially, #Niven explores a #SmokeRing around a (point) gravity source. From L1 I suppose dust would escape into a loose toroid around the Sun.
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@AkaSci
#SciFi The Martian Way by Isaac #Asimov has a large ice mass, I suppose more of a micro-moon than Ring particle, being collected and ferried back to Mars.
Haldeman's #WorldsApart has asteroids being shifted.
#TheMoonIsAHarshMistress has I think the first mass-driver and explores some of the consequences of being able to fling masses.Tangentially, #Niven explores a #SmokeRing around a (point) gravity source. From L1 I suppose dust would escape into a loose toroid around the Sun.
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@NanoRaptor
#SciFi : Ken Macleod's Learning the World with the advancing wave of green stars points up the idea that the Dyson sphere is less a solid structure than an accumulation of habitats, machines etc.
(Sphere might not be the shape either)
Larry #Niven's #NeutronStar short story points up one problem of near-point masses, tidal forces. One's personal #RocheLimit is best avoided.
Niven again, and the #SmokeRing and #IntegralTrees is interesting wrt a neutron star and habitability. -
@NanoRaptor
#SciFi : Ken Macleod's Learning the World with the advancing wave of green stars points up the idea that the Dyson sphere is less a solid structure than an accumulation of habitats, machines etc.
(Sphere might not be the shape either)
Larry #Niven's #NeutronStar short story points up one problem of near-point masses, tidal forces. One's personal #RocheLimit is best avoided.
Niven again, and the #SmokeRing and #IntegralTrees is interesting wrt a neutron star and habitability. -
#SciFi Larry #Niven invented a world, #Jinx , pulled into an ovoid by the gravity/tidal gradient of its primary.
He imagined it as a moon of a gas giant, so less extreme than this, but with vacuum at the Ends and excess atmosphere around the equator.
And in between, a livable zone. We might yet see something, although the radiation environment is probably too bad. -
#SciFi Larry #Niven invented a world, #Jinx , pulled into an ovoid by the gravity/tidal gradient of its primary.
He imagined it as a moon of a gas giant, so less extreme than this, but with vacuum at the Ends and excess atmosphere around the equator.
And in between, a livable zone. We might yet see something, although the radiation environment is probably too bad. -
Also one of #Niven s' #Kzinti #Puppeteer stories, a carnivorous telepath was reading the pilot's mind, and didn't like the memory of a crunched carrot.
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Also one of #Niven s' #Kzinti #Puppeteer stories, a carnivorous telepath was reading the pilot's mind, and didn't like the memory of a crunched carrot.
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@badastro When it dimmed I was so ready for it to explode ...
Niven wrote about ships that navigate inside a red supergiant in The Mote in God's Eye
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CW: #StarTrekLowerDecks E405 - "Empathalogical Fallacies"
T’Ana is really showing that #Caitians aren’t really that many generations away from their less scientific #Kzinti cousins (at least as #Niven and others have it).
Or perhaps she’s of Caitian-Kzinti bi-species heritage, somewhat like a Vulcan with a late 22nd century Romulan grandparent.
Would love to find out that T’Ana’s loss of her tail wasn’t entirely accidental, rather a way to lose a Kzin hairless tail
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Strongly recommend #StarTrekTAS. While it ran Saturday morning & had Filmation animation, the writing targeted a general audience, #Scifi writers engaged.
#Niven is clear that the #Kzinti in #StarTrek aren’t in the same universe as the ones in his #Nspace books, but are the same aliens. In his anthology ‘Playgrounds of the Mind’, where the story the TAS episode is based on appears, he says he wanted to share the Kzinti & see what Trek writers would do with them.
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If we go with #Caitians & #Kzinti, like Vulcans-Romulans, being one species in origin - as put forward in B-canon #WorldsOfTheFederation & confirmed by #Niven himself in #PlaygroundsOfTheMind - then it’s not at all surprising that the more scientifically minded Caitians shared their Kzinti cousins willingness to consume other sentient species.
#LarryNiven wrote that he put #Kzin into #StarTrekTAS to see what other writers would do with them in the #StarTrek universe.
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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#Pournelle - perhaps most widely #famous for being a great science-fiction #author, frequently in collaboration with Larry #Niven and Stephen #Barnes - was a bit of a polymath. He invented the 2-axis scale now known as a "Pournelle chart" in his political science Ph. D. dissertation, in 1963.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
A 1-axis chart misrepresents views or policies so badly you end up with, for example, #communists, #socialists, and #liberals all close together. (edit: thinko)
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@sasastanisic Es war zu erwarten dass wir schlussendlich alle zu #Nivens #Flatlandern werden.
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@adamasnemesis That was an amazing world-build by #Niven . Nice painting.
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The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle. -
The first 3 #Foundation books, in publishing order. By #Asimov.
The #Mote in God's Eye vol 1+2. By #Niven and #Pournelle.
