Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vebkmc$f1p$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

In article <ve9dec$39tdu$1@dont-email.me>, Kevrob  <kjrobinson@mail.com> wrote:

On 10/7/2024 11:43 AM, Don wrote:

 
Robin Cook's mentioned at the reddit link. My followup pertains to Cook.
 

Cook is a trained M. Have you tried F.Paul Wilson's medical-related
thrillers? He's a DO.

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Don't forget Michael Crichton, who wrote well-crafted biological
near-future science fiction books like Terminal Man, Andromeda
Strain, and so forth before he became too famous to write new stuff.

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I was aware that he became too dead to write new stuff, but thought he
had kept going up until that point..

No, at some point he got to the point where he was just writing the
same book over and over again with the same characters and only one
or two basic premises changed.
--scott
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