Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars. - James Nicoll

I wonder if every near-future SF series in which the US is not a brutal theocratic police state ruled by doctrinaire bigoted oligarchs and their boot-licking enablers became obsolete on ? Won't it be fun to find out together?

Niven made a name for himself as a author, which is to say, someone whose SF provides enough technical detail that the reader can be certain that various mechanisms and events couldn't work the way the author has them working.

A lot of my stories end with "And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me."