Cusanus Game - old school time travel sci-fi

[wvjohn]

I am enjoying this -

http://us.macmillan.com/thecusanusgame/WolfgangJeschke

[normalicy]

I tend to really like a lot of the older Sci-fi because it's all original. Most of what we get now a days unless it's a great author is a retread of what has already been done.

[Err]

I tend to really like a lot of the older Sci-fi because it's all original. Most of what we get now a days unless it's a great author is a retread of what has already been done.

I think it's funny how much the older sci-fi authors got right. Much of the older authors also used the medium to address social and political issues as well as add warnings about the future. I think that's missing in modern sci-fi.

[wvjohn]

Agreed on a lot of the old school stuff - I like to be challenged when I am reading things and like to be forced to think. I've read who knows how many sci-fi books in the last 50+ years, and a lot of the modern stuff is "tom clancy techy" - cute, but no plot to speak off.

Unfortunately, lowest common denominator writing is what a lot of the new fiction is about - I picked up a book yesterday (I volunteer at the local library) that was called Straits of Hormuz and had a naval ship on the cover. Turned out to be a formula "thriller" - rogue US agent, Middle Eastern psychos, etc. These things should really be published one chapter a week.

There's still some good stuff out there, just have to keep looking!