Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'

Post by RangerScience » Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #50

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

This Amazon review doesn't seem too promising, and there were few others that echoed the same sentiment. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B07FLX8V84/R1CKDTZCNU5E6... How do you feel about the non-tech parts of the novel? Does it get soapboxy or cartoony, or does it hold a sensible tone?

I found it very definitely a light read. It's a fun romp into 'what if we did asteroid mining like right now'. Characters are fleshed out enough to tell that story, I didn't find anything preachy or cartoonish, and I didn't spot any idiot-balls or other fake-danger tropes of SciFi.

Post by varjag » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 6:32 AM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #6

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

Daemon and Freedom are top class hard scifi. The plot hinges on technical detail that is both completely plausible and a natural extension of existing information technology. It's obvious that Suarez really understands what he's talking about in a deep way. I'd say "Daemon" is top twenty for best hard scifi books. http://superkuh.com/hardscifi.txt Delta-v is good scifi and I love this kind of background detail.

Just read it off your recommendation here. It's not a hard scifi unless you'd think Transformers also are. Some really far fetched sysadmin fiction.

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