Tag: biology

My #top100 #scifi Num:51 The Fountains of Paradise

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An elevator to space – a crazy idea at the time, made so plausible and obvious that today we assume it’s only a matter of time. Clark carving the possible with imagination. Direct and straightforward prose. Probably the last of his best. 
Arthur C Clarke

My #top100 #scifi Num:55 The integral Trees

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The Smoke Ring is a free-fall environment. A Jupiter-sized planet which once orbited the systems neutron star, ripped apart by hideous gravities, now exists as a hoop of habitable gas.  
Tribes of humans, separated from technology have gone native. 
What a backstory!

Larry Niven

So Long and Thanks for All The Fish

Dolphins talk to each other in complete sentences.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/11/dolphins-recorded-having-a-conversation-for-first-time/

One of the key ‘Science Fiction’ themes in my Singularity’s Children series, is that animals are much smarter than we generally assume. 
Teach a parrot to talk and it has surprisingly clever things to say. 
It seems unfair that an animal has to first learn our language before sitting its IQ test.
I am convinced that animals will sound smarter in their own languages, just as my kids tell me I come across as a dimwit when I speak in German.