Roz Kaveney
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| big dumb object n. | 1981 Science Fiction in the 1970s in Foundation June 25 Niven has ceased to be the acceptable face of technophilia and come to resemble not just his collaborator Pournelle but the Chalkers and the Busbys. Early in his career he brought back into fashion—naively but effectively—the resonances and charms of Big Dumb Objects like the Ringworld: as painted stages go, his Meccano universe was sort of loveable. |
| big dumb object n. | 1987 The Redemption of Urth in Washington Post (Book World section) 25 Oct. 7/2 The vast spaceship through which Severian hunts and is hunted is…the stock Big Dumb Object of space opera, meant to awe us with eclipse-causing bulk. |