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* PostScarcityEconomy: In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'', Earth's first interstellar colony, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, was settled by humans who were [[UterineReplicator grown in automated incubators]] and raised and educated by robots. Huge automated factories produce all the basic material goods anyone could ever want, so the colonists have no use for, or even understanding of, the concepts of money or profit. Hogan asserts that there is very little crime on Chiron because most crime starts with wanting something that belongs to someone else and in this society the concept of ownership doesn't exist (but he then had [[MoralMyopia both crimes and summary execution for them on Chiron feature prominently in the story]]).
* SuperweaponSurprise: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' focuses on Chiron, a human colony world orbiting Alpha Centauri, and the expedition sent from Earth to take control of the colony. The Chironians are uninterested in being taken over, so they fight back in subtle and nonviolent ways. They seem really confident of final victory despite the fact that the expedition has an army and a full array of heavy strategic and tactical weapons, and the Chironians don't. Then some of the Terrans notice that the old colony starship, the one that brought the original colonists to Chiron, has been fitted with a new experimental drive -- an antimatter-based reaction drive, which produces a blast of high-energy radiation thousands of kilometers long...
* SuperweaponSurprise: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' focuses on Chiron, a human colony world orbiting Alpha Centauri, and the expedition sent from Earth to take control of the colony. The Chironians are uninterested in being taken over, so they fight back in subtle and nonviolent ways. They seem really confident of final victory despite the fact that the expedition has an army and a full array of heavy strategic and tactical weapons, and the Chironians don't. Then some of the Terrans notice that the old colony starship, the one that brought the original colonists to Chiron, has been fitted with a new experimental drive -- an antimatter-based reaction drive, which produces a blast of high-energy radiation thousands of kilometers long...
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* PostScarcityEconomy: In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'', Earth's first interstellar colony, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, was settled by humans who were [[UterineReplicator grown in automated incubators]] and raised and educated by robots.incubators]]. Huge automated factories produce all the basic material goods anyone could ever want, so the colonists have no use for, or even understanding of, the concepts of money or profit. Hogan asserts that there is very little crime on Chiron because most crime starts with wanting something that belongs to someone else and in this society the concept of ownership doesn't exist (but he then had [[MoralMyopia both crimes and summary execution for them on Chiron feature prominently in the story]]).
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* RaisedByRobots: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' has the initial human population of the Chiron colony be raised by robots. Supposedly; this made them free of all historical prejudice and oppression. In practice; it made them vehicles for Hogan's particular political opinions.
* SuperweaponSurprise: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' focuses onChiron, a human colony world orbiting Alpha Centauri, and the an expedition sent from Earth to take control of the Chiron colony. The Chironians are uninterested in being taken over, so they fight back in subtle and nonviolent ways. They seem really confident of final victory despite the fact that the expedition has an army and a full array of heavy strategic and tactical weapons, and the Chironians don't. Then some of the Terrans notice that the old colony starship, the one that brought the original colonists to Chiron, has been fitted with a new experimental drive -- an antimatter-based reaction drive, which produces a blast of high-energy radiation thousands of kilometers long...
* RaisedByRobots: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' has the initial human population of the Chiron colony be raised by robots. Supposedly; this made them free of all historical prejudice and oppression. In practice; it made them vehicles for Hogan's particular political opinions.
* SuperweaponSurprise: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' focuses on
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* PostScarcityEconomy: In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'', Earth's first interstellar colony, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, was settled by humans who were [[ArtificialHuman [[UterineReplicator grown in automated incubators]] and raised and educated by robots. robots. Huge automated factories produce all the basic material goods anyone could ever want, so the colonists have no use for, or even understanding of, the concepts of money or profit. profit. Hogan asserts that there is very little crime on Chiron because most crime starts with wanting something that belongs to someone else, else and in this society the concept of ownership doesn't exist (but he then had [[MoralMyopia both crimes and summary execution for them on Chiron feature prominently in the story]]).
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* PostScarcityEconomy: In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'', Earth's first interstellar colony, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, was settled by humans who were [[ArtificialHuman grown in automated incubators]] and raised and educated by robots. Huge automated factories produce all the basic material goods anyone could ever want, so the colonists have no use for, or even understanding of, the concepts of money or profit. Hogan asserts that there is very little crime on Chiron because most crime starts with wanting something that belongs to someone else, and in this society the concept of ownership doesn't exist (but he then had [[BrokenAesop [[MoralMyopia both crimes and summary execution for them feature prominently in the story]]).
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* AuthorTract: Hogan became infamous for writing these.
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* PostScarcityEconomy: In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'', Earth's first interstellar colony, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, was settled by humans who were [[ArtificialHuman grown in automated incubators]] and raised and educated by robots. Huge automated factories produce all the basic material goods anyone could ever want, so the colonists have no use for, or even understanding of, the concepts of money or profit. There's Hogan asserts that there is very little crime, crime on Chiron because most crime starts with wanting something that belongs to someone else, and in this society the concept of ownership doesn't exist. They've found other ways to express their individuality.exist (but he then had [[BrokenAesop both crimes and summary execution for them feature prominently in the story]]).
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In ''Code Of The Lifemaker'', the Titanian alien civilization is supposed to resemble late medieval Italy, so it features a Catholic-like church, feuding city states, and a scientist ostracized for suggesting that the world is round...which never happened in real life. Europeans learned that the Earth was round during the time of Ancient Greece and that knowledge was never lost. The idea that belief in a flat Earth was widespread during the Middle Ages was invented during the 19th century, for the purpose of casting Christopher Columbus as a proto-Enlightenment thinker who achieved glory by challenging medieval superstition.
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* PostScarcityEconomy: In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'', Earth's first interstellar colony, a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, was settled by humans who were [[ArtificialHuman grown in automated incubators]] and raised and educated by robots. Huge automated factories produce all the basic material goods anyone could ever want, so the colonists have no use for, or even understanding of, the concepts of money or profit. There's very little crime, because most crime starts with wanting something that belongs to someone else, and in this society the concept of ownership doesn't exist. They've found other ways to express their individuality.
* SuperweaponSurprise: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' focuses on Chiron, a human colony world orbiting Alpha Centauri, and the expedition sent from Earth to take control of the colony. The Chironians are uninterested in being taken over, so they fight back in subtle and nonviolent ways. They seem really confident of final victory despite the fact that the expedition has an army and a full array of heavy strategic and tactical weapons, and the Chironians don't. Then some of the Terrans notice that the old colony starship, the one that brought the original colonists to Chiron, has been fitted with a new experimental drive -- an antimatter-based reaction drive, which produces a blast of high-energy radiation thousands of kilometers long...
* TimeTravel: Hogan was fascinated by the whole idea of time travel and multiple timelines, and used it repeatedly in his fiction:
** ''Literature/GiantsSeries'': at the end of ''Giants' Star'', the escaping Jevlenese get caught in a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent malfunctioning wormhole]] and accidentally travel back in time as well as across space, to the Solar System of fifty thousand years ago.
** In ''The Proteus Operation'', American scientists living in a BadFuture version of 1980 discover a way to travel back in time, and promptly do so. Their goal: change history by making sure Germany loses World War 2. They discover that in their timeline, Hitler was receiving support from ''another'' future timeline. Now they have to figure out what this other timeline is and accomplish their original mission, all without screwing up time still further.
** In ''Thrice Upon a Time'', a Scottish scientist invents a machine that can send information through time - forward or back - and sets about figuring out just how the hell that's even possible. Along the way he and his friends and allies find themselves dealing with several ApocalypseHow-level threats, one of which threatens all of human civilization while another could result in the destruction of the entire planet Earth.
* SuperweaponSurprise: ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' focuses on Chiron, a human colony world orbiting Alpha Centauri, and the expedition sent from Earth to take control of the colony. The Chironians are uninterested in being taken over, so they fight back in subtle and nonviolent ways. They seem really confident of final victory despite the fact that the expedition has an army and a full array of heavy strategic and tactical weapons, and the Chironians don't. Then some of the Terrans notice that the old colony starship, the one that brought the original colonists to Chiron, has been fitted with a new experimental drive -- an antimatter-based reaction drive, which produces a blast of high-energy radiation thousands of kilometers long...
* TimeTravel: Hogan was fascinated by the whole idea of time travel and multiple timelines, and used it repeatedly in his fiction:
** ''Literature/GiantsSeries'': at the end of ''Giants' Star'', the escaping Jevlenese get caught in a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent malfunctioning wormhole]] and accidentally travel back in time as well as across space, to the Solar System of fifty thousand years ago.
** In ''The Proteus Operation'', American scientists living in a BadFuture version of 1980 discover a way to travel back in time, and promptly do so. Their goal: change history by making sure Germany loses World War 2. They discover that in their timeline, Hitler was receiving support from ''another'' future timeline. Now they have to figure out what this other timeline is and accomplish their original mission, all without screwing up time still further.
** In ''Thrice Upon a Time'', a Scottish scientist invents a machine that can send information through time - forward or back - and sets about figuring out just how the hell that's even possible. Along the way he and his friends and allies find themselves dealing with several ApocalypseHow-level threats, one of which threatens all of human civilization while another could result in the destruction of the entire planet Earth.
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Early works tend toward a 3 or 4, presented as a 5 - he'll add some new possibilities such as ArtificialGravity or TimeTravel but present them as logical outgrowths of scientific research. His science got softer in later works.
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''James P. Hogan'' (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science-fiction writer. His first book, ''Inherit the Stars'', was written on a bet: he complained about the ending of Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey so often that his coworkers told him to write something better, and bet him he couldn't get it published.
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''James P. Hogan'' (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science-fiction writer. His first book, ''Inherit the Stars'', was written on a bet: he complained about the ending of Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' so often that his coworkers told him to [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter write something better, better]], and bet him he couldn't get it published.
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'''James P. Hogan''' (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science-fiction writer. His first book, ''Inherit the Stars'', was written on a bet: he complained about the ending of Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey so often that his coworkers told him to write something better, and bet him he couldn't get it published.
His works (especially his early works) tend toward relatively hard science, with minor expansions to scientific laws. Notably, his first book is entirely about scientific research. However, his later works tended to overshadow this with FilibusterFreefall - the original TropeNamer, "The Brain Eater", was a term used by Creator/JamesNicoll to refer to the problems with later works by Hogan, among others.
His works include:
* The ''Literature/GiantsSeries'':
** ''Inherit The Stars'' (1977)
** ''The Gentle Giants of Ganymede'' (1978)
** ''Giants' Star'' (1981)
** ''Entoverse'' (1991)
** ''Mission To Minerva'' (2005)
* ''Literature/TheTwoFacesOfTomorrow'' (1979)
* ''Literature/ThriceUponATime'' (1980)
* ''Literature/VoyageFromYesteryear'' (1982)
* ''Literature/CodeOfTheLifemaker'' (1983)
** ''The Immortality Option'' (1995) - sequel to Code of the Lifemaker
* ''Literature/TheProteusOperation'' (1985)
Manga comics based on some of his works were made:
* ''Manga/HoshiOTsuguMono'' - adaptation of ''Inherit The Stars''.
* ''Mirai kara no Hotline'' - adaptation of ''Thrice Upon a Time''.
* ''Mirai no Futatsu no Kao'' - adaptation of ''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'', translated back to English by Creator/DarkHorseComics.
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* FilibusterFreefall: His later works; as noted above, he was one of the original people described by the former TropeNamer, "The Brain Eater". In particular, his later works tended toward AIDS denialism, Velikovskyist catastrophism, and distrust of science.
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Early works tend toward a 3 or 4, presented as a 5 - he'll add some new possibilities such as ArtificialGravity or TimeTravel but present them as logical outgrowths of scientific research. His science got softer in later works.
His works (especially his early works) tend toward relatively hard science, with minor expansions to scientific laws. Notably, his first book is entirely about scientific research. However, his later works tended to overshadow this with FilibusterFreefall - the original TropeNamer, "The Brain Eater", was a term used by Creator/JamesNicoll to refer to the problems with later works by Hogan, among others.
His works include:
* The ''Literature/GiantsSeries'':
** ''Inherit The Stars'' (1977)
** ''The Gentle Giants of Ganymede'' (1978)
** ''Giants' Star'' (1981)
** ''Entoverse'' (1991)
** ''Mission To Minerva'' (2005)
* ''Literature/TheTwoFacesOfTomorrow'' (1979)
* ''Literature/ThriceUponATime'' (1980)
* ''Literature/VoyageFromYesteryear'' (1982)
* ''Literature/CodeOfTheLifemaker'' (1983)
** ''The Immortality Option'' (1995) - sequel to Code of the Lifemaker
* ''Literature/TheProteusOperation'' (1985)
Manga comics based on some of his works were made:
* ''Manga/HoshiOTsuguMono'' - adaptation of ''Inherit The Stars''.
* ''Mirai kara no Hotline'' - adaptation of ''Thrice Upon a Time''.
* ''Mirai no Futatsu no Kao'' - adaptation of ''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'', translated back to English by Creator/DarkHorseComics.
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!! His works provides examples of:
* FilibusterFreefall: His later works; as noted above, he was one of the original people described by the former TropeNamer, "The Brain Eater". In particular, his later works tended toward AIDS denialism, Velikovskyist catastrophism, and distrust of science.
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Early works tend toward a 3 or 4, presented as a 5 - he'll add some new possibilities such as ArtificialGravity or TimeTravel but present them as logical outgrowths of scientific research. His science got softer in later works.
