Juha Haataja: Universe of ScienceMathematics, Biosciences, Chemistry, Popular Science, and Science Writing.Reading space opera- October 2, 2007 Some time ago I read "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi, now I'm reading "The Ghost Brigades". These book are space-opera type science fiction, but they also have a serious weakness: Scalzi's alien characters are not alien at all, but all too human. In fact, many of the human characters in the Vorkosigan books by Bujold are more alien that Scalzi's aliens. But on the other hand, Scalzi has built a nice technological universe with new twists on the usual sf ideas.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/science/2007/10/02.html#a4856 |