Ken Fabian
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Hi, I'm someone who likes a lot of Science Fiction and have enjoyed a lot of Larry Niven's stories. Looking for people to talk about them with led me here.
These particular stories have both fascinated and frustrated me. There are things about them I really like, and I really want to suspend disbelief but there are things about them that make that very difficult. A free fall 'world' where people can survive and thrive is very enticing and these fired up my own imagination about what life might be like there but I found I had to re-engineer The Smoke Ring in my own mind if I weren't to abandon the world of imagination they had the power to open up. I'm generally able to suspend a lot of disbelief and tolerate inconsistencies. I don't want to simply attack the idea and ruin the stories for others with relentless criticism - like I said, there's a lot I like - but I'm curious what others who have read them think of the 'world building' and how well the storyline fits into it.
These particular stories have both fascinated and frustrated me. There are things about them I really like, and I really want to suspend disbelief but there are things about them that make that very difficult. A free fall 'world' where people can survive and thrive is very enticing and these fired up my own imagination about what life might be like there but I found I had to re-engineer The Smoke Ring in my own mind if I weren't to abandon the world of imagination they had the power to open up. I'm generally able to suspend a lot of disbelief and tolerate inconsistencies. I don't want to simply attack the idea and ruin the stories for others with relentless criticism - like I said, there's a lot I like - but I'm curious what others who have read them think of the 'world building' and how well the storyline fits into it.
