The Answer (1954)

Re:The Answer (1954) by ajkjk on Thursday October 02, 2025 @02:52PM (#45453790)

I think if a story gives you a sense of wonder when you're young, it's a good story, even if it seems cheesy later. Probably the reason it doesn't later is that you saw so many things like that when you were young and they don't surprise you anymore.

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Re:The Answer (1954) by antisthenes on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:45PM (#45454543)

I agree.

I would give anything to feel a sense of wonder that I used to get when reading sci-fi in my youth.

But "can't enter the same river twice" and all that.

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Re:The Answer (1954) by xmprt on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:48PM (#45455375)

Who's writing good scifi these days which evoke that same sense of wonder? Project Hail Mary was a fun read but felt a bit too in the weeds with the details.

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Re:The Answer (1954) by bobbiechen on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:50PM (#45455384)

Gotta be Ted Chiang. Try his short story collection titled Exhalation: Stories.

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Re:The Answer (1954) by AnotherGoodName on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:08PM (#45457137)

A bit like saying Shakespeare is full of cliché’s. Which it is, but it literally invented those cliché’s.

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