Re: Worst SF/F book you've read

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Could you please give a little more information about CLASHING
>> SUNS, like, say, who wrote it? Is it in print? Thanks.

> That shoudl be CRASHING SUNS. I've corrected my error.

And kindly added a typo for compensating meddling with the quotes.
Very nicely done. :)

> CRASHING SUNS is set 100,000 years from now***.

> In the first story, aliens are steering their sun towards ours
> so that they can ram ours and rekindle their clinker of a star
> (Hamilton used the "Stars start off hot and slowly cool off"
> model). Humans have just developed FTL so we go out to see why
> this star is headed towards us. In the end, the aliens are
> exterminated with their own star-steering device.

<snip further examples>

> This only gives a taste of how horrid the science in this is in
> terms of the time it was written.

It's the kind of science that I'd call proper Science _Fiction_. I'd
like that kind of stuff, if the story itself weren't horrid, about
exterminating all those hapless aliens.

> Yes, the Bethe Cycle wasn't understood until the end of the decade
> but people knew comets weren't bigger than galaxies. Also, ether
> seems to have been the 1930s version of quantum: it can do
> anything.

Ether sounds more interesting than quantum; magic rather than
physic. (Neither terms tells me much.)

But this reminds me, is there another definition for 'entropy'
besides: "(Physics) a quantity expressing how much of a system's
thermal energy is unavailable for conversion into mechanical work. -
Origin: Greek <skip word> 'transformation'"?

Because the way people use the word doesn't match this. They use it
as if it's some social situation of a culture, and not a quantity at
all, never mind anything to do with physics.

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