Re: Dan Simmons - blatant innumeracy
- From: Shieldfire <shieldfire@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:39:29 +0200
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12.53 Michael Grosberg spoke unto the
unsuspecting world:
>
> Bradford Holden wrote:
>> David Bilek <dtbilek@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > I finally found one that bothers me.
>> >
>> > In the _Ilium_/_Olympos_ books, Simmons portrays an Earth where a few
>> > hundred thousand "old-style" humans are each alloted a century of
>> > lifespan, with the population held constant through controlled
>> > birthrates. Simmons states several times that the way the human
>> > population is held stable is by allowing each human woman to have only
>> > one child.
>> >
>> > Um, no, Dan. That doesn't hold the population stable.
>> >
>> > Nobody seems to question this. They all take it for granted that
>>
>> That is because they are all REALLY REALLY STUPID, annoyingly stupid.
>>
>> Fortunately, the...err...good guys(?) show up in the end and teach
>> them to use their brains, to learn to think for themselves, to grow as
>> people...by wrestling and hunting.
>>
>> Boy, I was annoyed at that book.
>
> Well, Illium at least was a fun read, not important in any way but
> enjoyable if you ignore all the pointless literary references it was
> encumbered with, and the fact that it was written by the author of
> superb _Hyperion_. I'll pick up Olympos in paperback if I happen to
> spot it on a bookstore shelf, but I won't go out of my way to get it.
I wasn't even aware it was out - haven't seen it in my local SF book shop.
Ilium was displayed grandly on the mid-room table, but not the sequel (at
least I didn't see it there).
Martin s
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