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reviewed Nature's Warnings by Michael Ashley (Science Fiction Classics)

Michael Ashley: Nature's Warnings (Paperback, 2020, British Library Publishing)

Featuring stories crucial to the evolution of eco-science fiction from Philip K. Dick, Margaret St …

A little disappointing

I didn't read the back cover properly. All of these stories are "classics" i.e. quite old already. That means they usually will not involve any surprising concepts or ideas. The most you'll get is "Oh, they were already thinking of this back then?".

Larry Niven: Ringworld (1970)

Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space …

Weird

I still don't know what to make of this. Many aspects of this book were stylistically different from what I am used to, so I am mainly left a little confused. It is interesting for sure, though.