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Date: 2009-04-28 12:09 am (UTC)I mean, I've done my time in space physics research, and I enjoy books (including your own) that play cleverly on real science, but there's a lot more to SF than that. Just looking at my bookshelf right now, I see stacks of Dick, Ballard, Ellison, Moorcock, all genuinely brilliant SF authors, none terribly bothered by scientific rigour.
Take The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch: even when it was published, any scientifically literate person could have driven a coach and horses through its depiction of Mars, and much of the rest of the novel's background. So what? It's still one of the best SF novels ever written.
Imaginative expansion on rigorous science is one way in which SF can be good, but it is not the only way.
(NB: I have never read anything by Adam Roberts)