Posted by Suan Yong on February 27, 1997 at 11:44:45:
In Reply to: Re: Internet prefigured in Vance? posted by Terry Doyle on February 25, 1997 at 05:56:19:
: Vance is deliberately indefinite about how things are accomplished...
: This lack of exactly how things are done is coupled with a very clear vision of *what* should be done. On the other hand, many SF authors write with one hand on the keyboard and the other in the Sunday Science and Technology supplement of their major metropolitan newspaper. This makes for initial trendiness and medium term inaccuracy and long term laughability.
Hehe... this is why I have never really liked Asimov and his "sub-genre" of science fiction which emphasizes the "science" aspect. Vance emphasized the "fiction" in science fiction, using the 'science' merely as a tool to create new and unusual worlds.
Suan