The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction
Posté : jeu. mai 06, 2010 6:42 am
Le Site SF signal a posé la question à plusieurs auteurs pour leur demander quels étaient les meilleurs romans de space op.
Toutes les réponses sont ici.
Voici celle d'Alastair Reynolds
"If there's one fictional SF milieu that, at the age of 16, I could have happily lived in, it would be the Known Space universe of Larry Niven. Not just any period, though: it would have to be in the 200 years or so between the Beowulf Shaeffer stories and the events of Ringworld. It doesn't get much better than that, does it? It's relatively utopian, the Man-Kzin wars are over, and we've got a whole panoply of colourful planets and societies to explore, and - thanks to various alien technologies - the means to do so. And you're immortal. And you can teleport and own a hypersonic anti-grav flying motorbike. On the other hand there's still some room for adventure, since things haven't got too safe and sanitised just yet.
The ship's pretty easy: I'll take the one that carries Louis Wu and co. to Ringworld. You've got your virtually indestructible General Products hull, in this case a #2 model: a 300 feet long cylinder, 20 feet wide, pointed at both ends and with a wasp-waist constriction near the tail (cheers, wikipedia) - and it's transparent, for the best possible views. Inside the hull we've got an Outsider hyperdrive, while there's a fusion rocket mounted on the outside for in-system operations. Bung on a delta wing for landing, some weapons (in addition to the fusion rocket itself) and sensors, stasis generators and artificial gravity, and we're good to go. Oh, and throw in some hypersonic anti-grav flying motorbikes while we're at it, just in case we run into any godlike megastructures on the way.
So, you've got a cool SF environment to zip around in, more human and alien cultures than you can shake a stick at, and a ship that not only fuses human and alien engineering in an ingenious and self-consistent way, but happens to be nigh-on invulnerable, and - not inconsequentially - ends up looking pretty cool as well.
So yes, it's the good old Lying Bastard for me...but I'll take it pre-crash, please."
Toutes les réponses sont ici.
Voici celle d'Alastair Reynolds
"If there's one fictional SF milieu that, at the age of 16, I could have happily lived in, it would be the Known Space universe of Larry Niven. Not just any period, though: it would have to be in the 200 years or so between the Beowulf Shaeffer stories and the events of Ringworld. It doesn't get much better than that, does it? It's relatively utopian, the Man-Kzin wars are over, and we've got a whole panoply of colourful planets and societies to explore, and - thanks to various alien technologies - the means to do so. And you're immortal. And you can teleport and own a hypersonic anti-grav flying motorbike. On the other hand there's still some room for adventure, since things haven't got too safe and sanitised just yet.
The ship's pretty easy: I'll take the one that carries Louis Wu and co. to Ringworld. You've got your virtually indestructible General Products hull, in this case a #2 model: a 300 feet long cylinder, 20 feet wide, pointed at both ends and with a wasp-waist constriction near the tail (cheers, wikipedia) - and it's transparent, for the best possible views. Inside the hull we've got an Outsider hyperdrive, while there's a fusion rocket mounted on the outside for in-system operations. Bung on a delta wing for landing, some weapons (in addition to the fusion rocket itself) and sensors, stasis generators and artificial gravity, and we're good to go. Oh, and throw in some hypersonic anti-grav flying motorbikes while we're at it, just in case we run into any godlike megastructures on the way.
So, you've got a cool SF environment to zip around in, more human and alien cultures than you can shake a stick at, and a ship that not only fuses human and alien engineering in an ingenious and self-consistent way, but happens to be nigh-on invulnerable, and - not inconsequentially - ends up looking pretty cool as well.
So yes, it's the good old Lying Bastard for me...but I'll take it pre-crash, please."