Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

Jesus fucking Christ:

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TheGuntinator said:
Scifi is space fantasy you pretentious fat faggot. Nanites, space fauna and technology is basically magic in a sci fi setting. Unless Pat knows the secrets of gravity (which is likely considering he has his own orbit) his sci knowledge is total shit.
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Uh, ahckshewally, Sci-Fi exists on a spectrum: on one end is Hard Sci-Fi and on the other is Soft Sci-Fi (yes, yes, get your dick jokes out of the way now.) Hard Sci-Fi tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible, and relies on modern science to lay the foundation for the technologies in the story. Some examples would be Clarke's Rama series, Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian by Weir, and Baxter's The Xeelee Sequence. Soft Sci-Fi is where science is indistinguishable from magic; these are the kind of books Patrick writes, because he's a moron who can't comprehend what the three-body problem is, let alone figure out how to turn it into compelling fiction. We here on Kiwi Farms know the problem is how Patrick can have the mass of three people in just his body fat.

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Patrick, with your record at parenting, do you really want to get involved in this debate?
 
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Sexy Senior Citizen said:
Uh, ahckshewally, Sci-Fi exists on a spectrum: on one end is Hard Sci-Fi and on the other is Soft Sci-Fi (yes, yes, get your dick jokes out of the way now.) Hard Sci-Fi tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible, and relies on modern science to lay the foundation for the technologies in the story. Some examples would be Clarke's Rama series, Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian by Weir, and Baxter's The Xeelee Sequence. Soft Sci-Fi is where science is indistinguishable from magic; these are the kind of books Patrick writes, because he's a moron who can't comprehend what the three-body problem is, let alone figure out how to turn it into compelling fiction. We here on Kiwi Farms know the problem is how Patrick can have the mass of three people in just his body fat.


Patrick, with your record at parenting, do you really want to get involved in this debate?
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Funny enough, the whole "Succificiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic" is Clarke's Third Law. The big distinguishing feature between a good SciFi writer and Patirck isn't treating science as magic, but taking a concept and using it with logical consistency. Baxter never explains the GUT drive in the Xeelee Sequence, but he takes the possibility of an engine that can accelerate a large spaceship for hundreds of years at constant 1G to its logical conclusion. The drive and stable wormholes are handwavium, but the implication of closed timelike curves aren't. Pat doesn't do that. He takes a basic idea, usually in the form of "cliche IN SPAAAAACE" and then just writes that, any implications be damned. Teenage girl running away from home IN SPAAAAACE? Zero implications. It's just a slightly weirder New York including fucking McDonald's. She becomes a glorified car thief and no further thought is wasted.
Even the most Soft SciFi that doesn't give a shit about how things actually work, that focuses mostly on the social aspects, it still is only good if it adheres to its own internal logic. Star Trek for example is hit and miss with that. It frequently rewrites its own laws, but at least it tries to be consistent within a particular series (Nu Trek notwithstanding).

Sloppy Party Bottom said:
In Pat's defense, whomever wrote The Ark had a good idea in the nuclear-bombs-against-a-reflector-dish for propulsion, but it probably isn't original. You can tell he didn't write it, because literally everything he has "written" after it is fucking unreadable garbage. Like, just go back to fiver and pay some fucking Indians to write the sequel to it please.

Or use the Indian replacement ChatGPT.
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Is The Ark really that different? I obviously haven't read his books, but the excerpts I've read from Starship Repo were pretty awful.
Is The Ark even different from the following books of that series? I want to say that maybe The Ark was written before his brain was fully fried, but it came out in 2015, so he should have been well on his way to current brain damaged state.
 
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lindsayfan said:
someday (soon, because fat) when the police come by for the biweekly swattings, they will find patrick lying dead and stinking worse than usual. in his puffy hand will be a new-ish $1800 phone, and still unsent, his final words, his last message ever on earth:

"no, child, my clothing is not made of poop. my car is not just a toilet on wheels"
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This is it. He is seriously unhealthy and suffering HBP and is in a chronic state of anger because he can't back down from people who enjoy fucking with him. Given that he's clearly never gonna stop, he WILL die prematurely one day, given the state of his health, and there's a very good chance his last moments will be spent correcTing the record. What a pathetic legacy.
 
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Sloppy Party Bottom said:
In Pat's defense, whomever wrote The Ark had a good idea in the nuclear-bombs-against-a-reflector-dish for propulsion, but it probably isn't original.
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It's definitely not original.
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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia

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Fusion rocket - Wikipedia

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More importantly, though, it's been a common trope in SF since the '30s.

List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion - Wikipedia

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Sloppy Party Bottom said:
In Pat's defense, whomever wrote The Ark had a good idea in the nuclear-bombs-against-a-reflector-dish for propulsion, but it probably isn't original. You can tell he didn't write it, because literally everything he has "written" after it is fucking unreadable garbage. Like, just go back to fiver and pay some fucking Indians to write the sequel to it please.

Or use the Indian replacement ChatGPT.
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That was originally proposed all the way back in 1947. I first read about it back in 2008 in a cracked.com article (the text is still there but none of the images will load and the links to sources are all gone)
 
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