“Christian anti-scientific obscurantism.” REEEAlllly now. I forget how many alien races I’ve created, and for FTL there’s Stutter Warp, Bubble Drive, Jumpgates, Hyperspace I’ve used…don’t think I’ve created anything with a Folding Space Drive but I could have.
I’ve designed stuff that would have fit in with the Blue Men of Venus and stuff that was inspired by Singulatarianism and pretty much everything in between.
My favorite magic system was based on a metaphor of the Phoenix and Schumpeterian creative destruction but another magic system in the same setting was based on some of the ideas in Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol. And there was an evil bueracratic inspired magic system as well…okay, not evil, more futile.
I know we’re all dogs on the internet, but really such ignorant prejudgice is not cool. The facts are that your side (Global Warming, Evos, and all the other pseudo-sciences) have not made the case in my opinion. The evidence is lacking in my opinion.
So feel free to accuse someone who’s probably forgotten more SF than you’ve ever learned of being anti-science.
And yes, I’ve read most of the Falkenberg stuff, and it was pretty good although I think I like Mercenaries and Lucifer’s Hammer and The Mote in God’s Eye better. Dream Park was very good too, but the sequel not so much, although not bad. I will have to say that the Ringworld stuff in general was not that great what I read of it, although the scene where the Pak Protector fires a rifle bullet out of the back of a sub-light spaceship to impact into a neutron star they were slingshotting around in order to provoke a solar flare against a pursuing spaceship was very, very cool indeed.
