Have you read "Tonight the Sky Will Fall!" by Daniel F. Galouye? (in Brian Aldiss' "Space Opera" collection of "Golden Age" SF)
A novella on, well, a similar subject, written well before Boltzmann brains were thought of. On 11 August 2014 08:09, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > Interesting concepts. I would opt that the more outlandish your ideas, the > more they, as fiction need to be placed in an alternate universe (Everett's > MWI) or an infinite universe. The more area you have, the more you permit > the reader to populate their minds there. I envy your author's creativity, > Mikes, because I'd rather read them then write them. Lazy me. How about > this idea (idiots like myself are replete with great ideas, huh?). Look up > Boltzmann Brains, and write a novella where God is one, very powerful, very > smart, but is not the dude of the old books. Created our region of > spacetime, including setting the solar system to produce life, on a huge > (to humans) time scale. It would rock people's world, and I don't have an > ending. > > Dawkins even though their might be god-like intelligences in the universe, > but he believe that such a person would evolve up by evolutionary reasons. > Eh! I cannot afford to be so picky, and if it was true, it's true. Shrug! > What am going to do, sue the Boltzmann Brain?? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Mikes <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 3:29 pm > Subject: Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and > alternative energy lovers > > Liz: > > I wrote some books, several ones have been also published (mostly > professional). Here is my experience - not a 'novel', but about one > Sci-Fi I wrote ~1990~ in 2(!) languages and tried to publish in the US > and in Central Europe with excellent publishing houses. > Both markets rejected it (without knowing about each other) on the > one matching ground: > *"Too much science and not enough sex" - for selling.* > It was about extremely cultured and constructive 'aliens' coming > around for populating this Earth ~4b years ago and ~20,000+ > years ago coming back to see what happened. They stayed for awhile. > the creatures "ATE" each other - needed to be civilized! So I went > around explaining the big achievements of the 3 (4?) 'homo's. > > I found my text later obsolete and hard-to-refurbish for the 2000+ time. > > Now that you are editing, keep this in mind! > > John M > > PS My 'real' success was a 'light' one about PLASTICS everywhere > for pre- and early teenagers (late 1960s level). The publisher had an > excellent illustrator who 'invented' a <polymer-guy> with as many > hands as connectivity required for the appropriate item. JM > > > > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:05 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10 August 2014 02:15, spudboy100 via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You don't need to alter your politics, simply be aware, that there >>> appear to be rich people who seek a die-off. >> >> >> Oh yes indeed. That is the subject of my first novel, currently in the >> process of editing, good post apocalyptic fun set after those people have >> more or less achieved their aim. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
