Nik’s Comments (group member since Oct 22, 2019)

Nik’s comments from the Hard Sci-Fi Lovers group.

I've heard of The Three Body Problem, while not on my target list I might pick it up if I see it. I think with space opera, I really enjoy it, providing it has enough depth and is grounded in enough plausible future science.

Here's a question I haven't quite nailed down. Where does Hard SciFi end and Space Opera begin? Is there, as I suspect, a big overlap?

I started reading a lot of Hard SciFi then kinda realised that Space Opera was a thing and I was probably reading it without knowing. Basically for me there needs to be some scientific basis behind stuff otherwise it's not SciFi, it's fantasy, and that kinda bores me a bit. Space Opera seems to spread across both.

I basically read through all of Ian M Banks and Alastair Reynolds, both of which I love, with a splattering of other authors in between. currently working through Kim Stanley Robinson, Peter F Hamilton and Kevin J Anderson. Kinda like Pohl, Loved Richard K Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series. Loved Greg Bear's Eon and Eternity, although haven't liked his other stuff. Read a few Stephen Baxter books but not sure they were my thing, a bit whacky perhaps. Found Greg Egan a bit too hardcore.

I have read quite a few of the old school authors but I definitely prefer the newer stuff.