30 Jun 02:50

Amit Dutta

Me too

30 Jun 02:50

Mechanizoid

But it was a really fun chat, CYA Amit!

30 Jun 02:50

Amit Dutta

Yep

30 Jun 02:50

Mechanizoid

Yeah, I should have been in bed LOOONG ago

30 Jun 02:49

Amit Dutta

No probs. Ok fun chat, I gotta head. Take it easy man!

30 Jun 02:49

Mechanizoid

I'll check those out.

30 Jun 02:49

Mechanizoid

Then we'd have to send robot ships to set them up or something. :-)

30 Jun 02:49

Amit Dutta

But Clarkesworld tends to win more hugos and nebulas

30 Jun 02:48

Mechanizoid

I was just thinking, what if we figured out how to make interstellar stargates, but we needed to put the other end of the gate at the other star by normal means?

30 Jun 02:48

Amit Dutta

Also Galaxy's Edge is supposed to be good, and emm Asimovs (which I'm not sure is still beimg published? )

30 Jun 02:47

Mechanizoid

Wow, cool, thanks

30 Jun 02:47

Amit Dutta

Clarkesworld magazine tends to have pretty high quality stuff....it's free to read online

30 Jun 02:47

Mechanizoid

Best of luck to you man, writing is really cool. :-)

30 Jun 02:47

Mechanizoid

Really? I am writing a SF novel right now, and I already am kind of a nonfiction writer

30 Jun 02:46

Mechanizoid

Got any recommendations? I like good short SF stories

30 Jun 02:46

Amit Dutta

Want to write them too, so I guess that's why

30 Jun 02:46

Amit Dutta

I've been getting more into short stories actually. Love the richness you can create with just small vignettes.

30 Jun 02:45

Mechanizoid

it's just so absurd and whiz-bang that it is amusing in the extreme

30 Jun 02:45

Mechanizoid

where the solution to every problem is LITERALLY vaporizing all the bad guys

30 Jun 02:45

Mechanizoid

I do enjoy some of the really old creaky SF like "The Skylark of Space" though

30 Jun 02:44

Amit Dutta

Haha, I may have read something, will check it out

30 Jun 02:44

Mechanizoid

The characters have to see more nuanced solutions to their problems than just vaporizing all the bad guys. :-)

30 Jun 02:44

Mechanizoid

I think you'd like her writing, if you haven't read her already. She eschews the flash-bang of other "manlier" SF.

30 Jun 02:43

Mechanizoid

I'm reading Andre Norton's "Star Born" right now, fun book.

30 Jun 02:43

Amit Dutta

All flash bang...less substance.

30 Jun 02:43

Amit Dutta

I liken it to the vfx of scifi writing

30 Jun 02:43

Mechanizoid

Andre Norton is much more speculative than James Corey in "The Expanse" for instance

30 Jun 02:42

Mechanizoid

And I agree, I love old SF way more than modern.

30 Jun 02:42

Mechanizoid

Yeah, when I think about it I'm not worried about my mortality either. Just regretful that I probably won't get to find out of wormholes can really exist.

30 Jun 02:42

Amit Dutta

I love old sci fi. It was Way more speculative. Nowadays its all more grounded in reality...even if the tech isn't. Kinda dull

30 Jun 02:40

Mechanizoid

or the universe will end (which happens in the last novel)

30 Jun 02:40

Mechanizoid

Humans find ways to extend life as well, but it doesn't make you immortal, 'cause sooner or later you'll be killed in an accident or something