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Armisael16 on Oct 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: New periodic orbits of the three-body problem

> So? Doesn't sound that different from 90% of classic sci-fi, especially Asimov.

That doesn’t make it good writing.

coldtea on Oct 14, 2017 [–]

No, but it means it can still be good sci-fi.

Sci-fi was never about the writing, in the way hi-brow literature was.

Heck, it started from pulp magazines aimed at teenagers.

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