Black Entertainment : Snowfall the Series

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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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For Informative Science Fiction about what is happening in the world today, I would suggest:

Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez


It is a single story but takes up two books.

Looking back I do not know how I would have gotten through grade school without SF. I vividly recall one morning in 3rd grade preparing to go to school resisting the urge to cry, wondering how I would get through another day because it was SO BORING!!!

SF gave me things to imagine and think about while I could sit there and pretend to pay attention to the nitwit nun.
 

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