rachel on 25/7/2007 at 22:00
Thanks Kyote, that one looks amazingly cool :thumb:
Mr.Duck on 27/7/2007 at 18:25
Ah, right now I'm enjoying Hyperion and hope to get The Fall of Hyperion soon (only books in the series, right?).
Good stuff, good stuff...
Shoshin on 27/7/2007 at 20:54
There's Endymion and The Rise of Endymion as well.
Mr.Duck on 27/7/2007 at 21:18
Any good on the same level as Hyperion?, better?, worse?
:)
Shoshin on 12/8/2007 at 03:07
Quote Posted by MrDuck
Any good on the same level as Hyperion?, better?, worse?
:)
They're good, though probably slightly below Hyperion. Still leagues ahead of most SF.
rachel on 20/2/2008 at 10:49
I just received my Amazon shipment containing Reynolds' Galactic North, Pushing Ice and Century Rain, Brin's Sundiver and Flynn's The Wreck of the River of Stars.
I'm one third through The River and impressions are really good so far.
I'll come back later for a review. :)
Thanks again for the suggestion Kyote!
On another note I read Herbert's Destination Void, about a crew trying to repair its ship by creating an AI and it was a bit of a let down. The writing is only average in my opinion and the Deus Ex Machina ending coming out of nowhere kind of robs the reader from good closure, it doesn't make sense. Not really bad, but definitely not "good" for me. :erg:
d0om on 20/2/2008 at 11:09
Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod is a good book. Set in a post-rapture future the heroine is a "combat archaeologist" extracting useful technology from the ruins hyper-advanced AI civilisation that grew exponentially then vanished. Lots of factions and intrigue and an amusing read.
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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21QYJYBS99L._AA158_.jpgSulphur on 20/2/2008 at 11:45
If you get your buzz from sci-fi that verges on technophiliac incomprehensibility, there's always (
http://www.accelerando.org/book/) Accelerando.
There's like a hundred million ideas spinning around in this book, and at least half of them inspire your brain to think about the possibilities it's suggesting. It's whacked*, but in a good way, and the pace is almost breakneck. Oh, did I also mention it's freely available for download, via that link? You even get a PDF version if you want.
Good luck reading the entire thing on your PC, though. :D
What I'd really recommend for just about anybody here is
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester. One of the best books I've ever read, in terms of pace, story, and the outright 'AW FUCK THIS IS AMAZING SHIT' factor.
Hell, it was written in the 50's and it inspired William Gibson to write Neuromancer. What more of a recommendation do ya need?
*Like what happens when you systematically map the neural activity of a bunch of crustaceans and upload them onto the 'net. Er, yes. :D
june gloom on 20/2/2008 at 12:07
I read Snow Crash last month and while I liked it, I got tired of the post-modernist bullshit about ancient Sumeria blah blah blah. Didn't fit the cyberpunk theme at all.
Gibson's Neuromancer was the better cyberpunk read, IMO.
