Hm, Science Fiction

I recently finished reading Stephen Baxter's Exultant. I haven't read science fiction in a long time, and this one was somewhat better than a lot of what I remember reading as a Jr. High student. One thing that set this book apart from others is that unlike a lot of other novels which happen to be set in space or something, this one seems to crib a lot of its backstory from something like Hawking's A Brief History Of Time.

Upon reflection, this seems kind of odd. General Relativity and galactic scale physics involving black holes and millions of years gets used as a dramatic setting for a fine little story. Imagine how much better a story someone could write by basing it on something that nearly every person in an industrialized society interacts with every day.

Introducing: Computer Science Fiction. Maybe we'll start with a travelling robot salesman and all the troubles he gets into.

Yeah. This could be something big.