Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by shkkmo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:58PM (#27052465)

We have a number of very good modern science fiction authors that easily rival them. While none of them may be as iconic, I think that has more to do with competition in the genre and breadth of the market.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by omgwtfbbq on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:17PM (#27055125)

Name some? My experience with authors like Cixin Liu and some contemporaries is that they are unreadable, this could just be bad translations in Liu's case but I'm not at all convinced modern writers rival the classical greats in SciFi.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by shkkmo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:46PM (#27057844)

I found myself similarly underwhelmed by Cixin Liu given all the good things I'd heard.

I'm horrible at remembering names, but three of my favorites off the top of my head are Peter Watts, Neil Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robison.

I've generally had decent luck finding new authors by just by seeing who gets Hugo and Nebula nominations.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by Sophistifunk on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:28PM (#27057231)

FWIW either the writing or translation seems to get better as 3BP progresses.

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