Because our specific wheel is old and busted. Also we don't look outside the wheel-way of doing things. It was a good wheel for the time it was built. However, we seem to be too fixated on repairing the wheel. There is a whole industry in wheel repair, wheel protocol, wheel contracts etc..
To use your symbolism, instead of building a wheel they are building a sledge - having discovered through wheel-driven exploration Space is covered in snow and bumpy so a sledge is a good option. Yes, the wheel works and is important. But they are under no obligation to bog down thier sledge building team with wheel thinkers.
Alan Dean Foster Splinter of The Mind's Eye 1978 Information to be found such places as: http://www.geocities.com/starwarsnovels/Splin ter_o f_the_Minds_Eye.htm
Didn't the Enhancing Crystal thing already get done (badly)? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det ail/-/0345 320239/103-8566168-9878267?v=glance I can remember reading this. The amount of revisionist history in the Star Wars universe is mind boggling.
I am completely with you here. Yes, both authors have fantasy aspects to the storylines but the drive of the bulk of the work is science related. Clayton's Skeen series could be seen both as science enabled smuggler amoung the native aliens AND as high fantasy.
What I do think has gotten lost is a gloss of glamous and edgy sexiness to science fiction. It just doesn't make the same press anymore.
(Long time lurker and still fairly new to this. Have mercy or be lucid. Thanks.)
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Because our specific wheel is old and busted. Also we don't look outside the wheel-way of doing things. It was a good wheel for the time it was built. However, we seem to be too fixated on repairing the wheel. There is a whole industry in wheel repair, wheel protocol, wheel contracts etc..
To use your symbolism, instead of building a wheel they are building a sledge - having discovered through wheel-driven exploration Space is covered in snow and bumpy so a sledge is a good option. Yes, the wheel works and is important. But they are under no obligation to bog down thier sledge building team with wheel thinkers.
Alan Dean Fostern ter_o f_the_Minds_Eye.htm
Splinter of The Mind's Eye
1978
Information to be found such places as:
http://www.geocities.com/starwarsnovels/Spli
Didn't the Enhancing Crystal thing already get done (badly)?t ail/-/0345 320239/103-8566168-9878267?v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de
I can remember reading this. The amount of revisionist history in the Star Wars universe is mind boggling.
Jo Clayton
CS Freidman
I am completely with you here. Yes, both authors have fantasy aspects to the storylines but the drive of the bulk of the work is science related. Clayton's Skeen series could be seen both as science enabled smuggler amoung the native aliens AND as high fantasy.
What I do think has gotten lost is a gloss of glamous and edgy sexiness to science fiction. It just doesn't make the same press anymore.
(Long time lurker and still fairly new to this. Have mercy or be lucid. Thanks.)