“The trap we science and space buffs always fall into is thinking that everybody will want the things that we want,” Sawyer explains.
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Clarke depicted all those wonders- artificial intelligence, suspended animation, floating hotels, cities on the moon, manned interplanetary travel-in the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, those seemed like reasonable predictions for the dawn of this century, but none of them came to pass.” “No one predicted in 1969, when the first man walked on the moon, that the last man would walk on the moon just three years later,” Sawyer points out. Sawyer is one of only seven writers in history-and the only Canadian-to win all three of the world’s top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W.
His most recent novel is Rollback, and he has a trilogy in progress (the first volume due April 2009) in which the Web wakes up.
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Sawyer has written over 20 science fiction books, including his Neanderthal trilogy, Factoring Humanity, and Mindscan, plus numerous stories. “This goes right back to the Space Race, and the movie 2001,” (directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. The only science fiction movie that did this right, according to Niven (it wasn’t clear whether he was referring to the last point, or all his bullet points), was the 1983 film Brainstorm, in which, according to Niven, “a valid technology was followed from its inception to its limits.” Nobody invents anything unless there is at least the illusion of a profit. You’re obliged to predict not just the automobile but the traffic jam and the stranglehold on gas prices. There is always someone who wants the money for something else. Then try to guess when it will appear and what it will look like. Instant travel, instant education, longevity. Look for the goals humankind will never give up. Here’s what Niven has to say regarding techniques for predicting a valid future technology:
Niven’s science fiction includes a wide range of technology we don’t (yet) have, from room-temperature supercomputers (Ringworld) to “stepping disks” (manhole-sized unenclosed teleportation units). Lerner) and the upcoming Escape From Hell (with Jerry Pournelle), a sequence to their Inferno. His most recent books include Juggler of Worlds (with co-author Edward M. Niven has won five Hugo Awards (awarded annually by science fiction fans) and a Nebula Award (awarded annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America). Niven has written or co-authored over 50 books, including the Ringworld series, and with co-author Jerry Pournelle, The Mote In God’s Eye, The Gripping Hand and Oath of Fealty. From ramscoops and brain pleasure implants (“drouds”) to Romulan-class warrior cats (“Kzinti) and Earth-orbit-sized habitats (the Ringworld), few science fiction writers have given us bigger visions than Larry Niven.
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