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Originally Posted by troutman
I also like some new writers like Hamilton, Reynolds, Bacigalupi, Mieville. Some of the new SF I find too far-fetched - in the not too distant future, humans are basically scattered across the galaxy, basically immortal, psychic or downloaded into the internet. More fantasy, than science fiction.
Ben Bova's Grand Tour series seems more plausible. A good story teller, but a bit cheesy at times. One of his female protagonists often describes cool things as "cosmic".
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I found the bold an issue with much older sci-fi as well. In 100 years we are supposed to have colonized how many other star systems? We haven't even gone to Mars in the time many of them figured it would take to get to Alpha Centauri. And as much as I love Larry Niven and Heinlein, making characters psychic is stupid imho.