Reddit mentions of The Space Child's Mother Goose

Well, I just discovered that The Space Child's Mother Goose is back in print, and regret the hundred dollars I spent on it 10 years ago.

Another: Wealth against Commonwealth. This is apparently free electronically now.

I give up.

Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, Iain Banks's Culture, Walter John Williams's Aristoi, Jack Vance's Tschai: Planet of Adventure. These are either already rational (Vorkosigan Saga), or they're partially rational and the remaining irrationality is so deeply buried in the premise that you can't fix it without ripping apart the universe (Culture, Aristoi), or the protagonist is already Level 1-2 Intelligent and the rest of the book is so well-written that any attempt to change things would just make you look sad (Tschai).

Counterexample to Mother Goose: Space Child's Mother Goose

I haven't watched SU since Season 3, but as I recall it was mostly tongue-in-cheek rather than Isaac Asimov style hard sci-fi.

This might sound weird, but I think this book could help you: A Space Child's Mother Goose. It's probably available in libraries and seems pretty cheap used.

I recommend it because it has some of the best, most poetic technobabble I've read, and best yet, it's all based on real science. While I don't own it, one I remember is,

>The colloid and the crystalloid were fighting just in jest

>The colloid called the crystalloid a pseudo-anapest

>Some called them physical; some called them chemic,

>And some thought the whole affair was less than academic."

(Based on "The Lion and the Unicorn.")

Just a thought.

The Spacechild's Mother Goose.
http://www.amazon.com/Space-Childs-Mother-Goose/dp/1930900465/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398195622&sr=1-1&keywords=a+space+child%27s+mother+goose

Lots of inspiration in the following book I found:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Childs-Mother-Goose/dp/1930900465