"Dead Ends"....
May. 24th, 2010 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdehnersAll of us have had fav book series that stop...unfinished. It's sad when it happens because the author has Passed. It's annoying when the author has just gotten bored with it. Below are two personal examples:
David Gerrold's "War angainst the Chtorr". This author last wrote in it in 1993 and that was after a many yr's hiatus. This incredibly creative theory follows the survivors of a pandemic who soon find out that this was but one step in "terraforming" Earth for a biosphere millions of yrs further Evolved than our own. Some of the best hard Sci-Fi still, as well as pretty spot on how people would react. The hardest for the 'Star Trek' crowd is the complete negation of the popualr idea that more Evolved=more Peaceable. In a biosphere that evolved, pretty much any higher predator and prey has at least the intelligence of a human child. Humanity isn't much more special than a smart sheep...
LE Modesitt Jr's Ecolitan books. The last one was released in 1997. While very much a Modesitt Jr style series(highly Ethical men and women dealing with Humanity's eternal need to fool itself into easy and cheap answers to ANY problem), it deals with Accord, a planet colonised by Ecologically-oriented scientists. A stable, ecologically sound culture in a human universe much like our own just with star travel fights to stay as Independant from it's more Powerful and Wasteful neighbors.Not Fuzzy Bunnies. After Earth's Empire repeatedly oppresses them and slaughtering a neighbor world(both human population and biosphere)they selectively destoy Earth's biosphere using biological warfare that they have the cure and controls for....
I wish both authors would at least write final books in their works. I hate "Cliffhangers"....
Cheers,
Pat
David Gerrold's "War angainst the Chtorr". This author last wrote in it in 1993 and that was after a many yr's hiatus. This incredibly creative theory follows the survivors of a pandemic who soon find out that this was but one step in "terraforming" Earth for a biosphere millions of yrs further Evolved than our own. Some of the best hard Sci-Fi still, as well as pretty spot on how people would react. The hardest for the 'Star Trek' crowd is the complete negation of the popualr idea that more Evolved=more Peaceable. In a biosphere that evolved, pretty much any higher predator and prey has at least the intelligence of a human child. Humanity isn't much more special than a smart sheep...
LE Modesitt Jr's Ecolitan books. The last one was released in 1997. While very much a Modesitt Jr style series(highly Ethical men and women dealing with Humanity's eternal need to fool itself into easy and cheap answers to ANY problem), it deals with Accord, a planet colonised by Ecologically-oriented scientists. A stable, ecologically sound culture in a human universe much like our own just with star travel fights to stay as Independant from it's more Powerful and Wasteful neighbors.Not Fuzzy Bunnies. After Earth's Empire repeatedly oppresses them and slaughtering a neighbor world(both human population and biosphere)they selectively destoy Earth's biosphere using biological warfare that they have the cure and controls for....
I wish both authors would at least write final books in their works. I hate "Cliffhangers"....
Cheers,
Pat
