Re: Dan Simmons on Larry Niven?

David T. Bilek <davidbilek@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Okay, so the hippopotamus and crayon thing is, indeed, a little bit of
hyperbole. Yeah, _Mote_ is better than, say, Robert Sawyer's Hugo
winner. But that's not a hugely difficult goalpost to make it
through. It doesn't exactly try to push the boundaries of SF in any
way.

Buh? The Aldeson drive? The biology of the Moties? The million-year
history of the Moties, and how that interacted with the physics of the
Aldeson drive, stars, and the force field rules they had? Those don't
push the boundaries in any way?

-xx- Damien X-)
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