|
Hmmm, I don't know that I agree - with the big glaring caveat being that we're talking solely about books. I'm a big fan of hard scifi, which lends itself to the fantastic. These tend to be one of two variations when it comes to powers/weapons: either one side is far ahead of the other (nukes vs. spears as in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence) or they're evenly matched (dueling subluminal planetoids like Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces).
I'll grant that this is genre-specific and may not translate well to others, but it's the one that I know fairly well.
Did I get the right medium? If not, I have some thoughts on "Star Wars" when you have multiple new weapons being used single scenes, as does Battlestar Galactica.
__________________
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
|