In an age of remote operations and semi-automnous vehicles, not to mention hundreds of discarded communication satellites, is there still a place for Heinlein's heroic space cadets and Clarke's Relay Stations, staffed by engineers in blue coveralls or rolled shirtsleeves and a pipe?
An amusing little read from the Rocketpunk Manifesto blog:
http://rocketpunk-manifesto.blogspot.com/2008/02/hard-sf-so-hard-its-impossible.html
An amusing little read from the Rocketpunk Manifesto blog:
http://rocketpunk-manifesto.blogspot.com/2008/02/hard-sf-so-hard-its-impossible.html