Goliath Stone, The
A Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction book. Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many...
Doctor Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with the use of nanotechnology. But Glyer’s controversial nanites are more than just the latest technological advance, they are a new form of life—and they have more uses than just medical. Glyer’s nanites also have the potential to make everyone on Earth rich from the...
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I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone // ...sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building. Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone // Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free - or anyway at fifty cents a word. Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone //
A more traditional SF than I've read in a while, where the emphasis is on the technology (in this case, nanotechnology). Unfortunately, the author took too much influence from Heinlein, and the characters were all one-sided and unbelievable. It was also internally inconsistent: very strong libertarianism (didactically so), yet the genius... The Goliath Stone is one of those books that reads like there are actually two books, one is the actual book and the other is a virtual book that the author/s wrote in their head/s or on liner notes that contain the other half of the story. Not having access to that virtual book, the reader is left to figure out what the authors are... As Larry Niven ages, the probability that his next book will be good just keeps going down. This one's a stinker. In mid-story, the authors talk about a character becoming hugely successful by writing romance novels - using a template and making everything as bad as it could be. I am tempted to read that as being about this book too....
