Re: Heinlein/Clarke Recommendations

In article <1191791062@xxxxxxxxx>, Wayne Throop <throopw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ Re: "Tales of the Questor" web comic, http://rhjunior.com/totq/ ]

Well, bottom line, while not quite as "crossover"-like and
intermixed as DBZ, it is (IMO) a very nice blending of
magic and technology. I suppose one would have to say it
tends towards fantasy... but the sort of "locally hard"
fantasy, where you can trust that the underpinnings are ...
are ... underpinned nicely.

Hey, anybody that comes up with the notion of the Deep
Runic Scanner can't be all uninteresting. Oh, and the
totally new runes it found at the bottom of this page

http://rhjunior.com/totq/00231.html

are interesting indeed, heh... but I suppose I digress.

Ah, another fan.

This web comic is a whole lot of things I just would not
have expected to like -- seemingly more fantasy than SF,
medieval world ... furry. (The humans are medieval level,
anyway; the Rac Cona strike me as being well into their
Renaissance.)

Good story-telling transcends genre. That segment where
Quentyn goes undercover in the gangs of Sanctuary City to
get his sword back was classic.

Actually, it's only "furry" in the sense of (effectively)
aliens who have fur, like Cherryh's Hani, or Poul Anderson's
Chee Lan, or any number of others. He's done some very neat
world-building, and a lot of unique twists on old folklore
and fantasy tropes. ("Elves don't age"... heh heh heh.)

"Locally hard fantasy" is a good description. "Lux" is a lot
like Larry Niven's "mana"; a resource that can be used up in
an area. Unlike mana, it's renewable (sort of a byproduct
of life) and can be (and is) mechanically generated on an
industrial scale.

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