![]() ![]() ![]() It’s 2057, and Captain Bella Lind’s Rockhopper is an ice pusher out on a standard run mining a comet when they receive a startling message from HQ. With Pushing Ice being my first Al Reynolds novel, I was pleasantly surprised to have that not always be the case. For the uninitiated, hard science, per TVtropes, is “firmly grounded in reality, with only a few fantastic flights of fancy not justified by science, or with the technology being nonexistent in today’s world but probably scientifically possible at some point.” I’ve often found that with hard science, it’s easy, as a reader, to get bogged down with the theories and technologies that’re thrown at you to the point that it distracts from the plot. Moreover, he’s known for his space opera and wont for writing hard science. Alastair Reynolds is well known and well-loved on the science fiction side of the spec-fic realm. ![]()
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