Narration + Your Thoughts On Extinction/Expansion

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Stephen Baxter books:
http://www.stephen-baxter.com/books.html

Fermi Paradox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
and
http://www.fermisparadox.com/

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[bobbocesu19]

yeah read TIME and i thought it was pretty good. Re-reading EXULTANT now though. My fav Baxter book and one of the best science fiction books around! A must read

[ATiredDogsMouth]

I really liked Time and the early Xeelee cycle up to Ring. The Coalescent type ones with the asteroid trench warfare werent so hot.

Other things you might like;

Ted Chiang. Google "understand" for a stunning sample. Better than Greg Egan at hard logical sf

Blood Music by Bear is a great Singularity story.

Cordwainer Smith and Theordore Sturgeon for their poetic beauty.

Upon the Dull Earth by PKD; chilling.

[danger0usknowledge]

Manifold Time was a Great book. Manifold Space was even better. The only thing I ever heard from blogger Instapundit that made sense, mining asteroids. We are experiencing Peak Metals kinda soon.) Baxter does a great job of taking NASA to task & the southern politicians who have used our space program as their personal employment agency. Vacuum Diagrams was kinda tough but absolutely amazing. I went from that to the Bible. Good progression??? Robert Sawyer??????

[VisitingXenoc133]

I have read Time, Space, Flood, Times Eye, and Coalescent. I will soon read Exultant, Transcendent, Origin, Phase Space, Voyage, Titan, Moonseed, the Xeelee Omnibus and Ark when they come out in the US, Vacuum Diagrams, and other books he's written.

I do love Reynolds as well, but Banks is not scientific at all!

Hamilton is not greatly scientific but his worlds have a lot of depth and interesting elements, so I still enjoy his books greatly, much better then Banks.

[SpacedTime]

Fermi? The box and the black pebble?

[squidfanny]

Interesting... I read the book a while ago, and I reckon it's one of Baxter's best works.

How did I feel? I wanted to hear more...

[Myst936]

The Fermi Paradox is incredible bullshit.

[TurkishPoltergeist69]

My opinion about it is this: When humanity in general can work together, when every life is treated as precious, when the governments of the world realize that violence is never the answer, it is then that we will have an obligation to populate the universe. If we had the technology readily available now, I couldn't mentally handle humanity polluting another planet & possibly destroying another civilization. We can be the most primitive intentioned beings of the universe, or the gatekeepers...

[FatalAnimal]

Books by Greg Bear I would recommend:

(Man consider him the best hard scifi writer ever)

The Forge of God

Darwin's Radio

Eternity

Queen of Angles

[nathanforst1]

Another great book is Calculating God by Robert J Sawyer. I highly suggest it.