- Jun 13, 2007
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i read neal asher.......
I read his Prador Moon. I recall the start but not how it ended.
There is what I regard as iSF and eSF. Intellectual/Informative versus Entertaining
But I started reading the stuff when I was 9 years old. I applied to MIT because of science fiction. Cost me $50 just to apply. That is equivalent to about $250 today. It bought me a 20 minute lecture from this white man about what kind of boys get into MIT. Sons of doctors and lawyers.
I wasn't shocked since I knew I didn't have the money from the get go. All I had was a National Merit Scholarship for $1000. It almost paid for 1 semester at the engineering school I did attend.
But without those sci-fi books I never would have heard of MIT. I read enough informative science fiction in grammar school to affect the trajectory of my life. I find it really curious that MIT has not had any discussion of the distribution of steel down the Twin Towers but we are all supposed to believe that a 200 ton airliner could totally destroy a 500,000 ton building in less than two hours.
I regard that as the Number One Weird Event in human history.
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