Tocky on 8/3/2008 at 15:18
What are robots but computers that can kick your ass?
I read Hyperion because a buddy pestered me and too reading the same stuff is a way of connecting to those you seldom see. It started well with all the imaginative stories and things like the tesla trees and cruciforms but he couldn't then tie it all together at the end of the second book and resorted to dues ex happy skippy goodtime ending.
I haven't read actually good SF in ages. The used to come out with a years best anthology of short stories. Do they still do that? Often SF is best told in short bursts.
rachel on 17/10/2010 at 11:16
Resurrecting this thing again because it never gets old.
Looking for new reads, so, did anyone read "Flood" and "Ark" by Stephen Baxter? Are they good?
Vernon on 17/10/2010 at 13:40
I read half of Perdido Street Station. It was okay I guess I don't really like sci-fi but there are people who think it is very good. It's more steampunk I dunno if that counts as sci-fi
june gloom on 19/10/2010 at 07:04
I just picked up William Gibson's Zero History. I'll be rereading Pattern Recognition and Spook Country to refresh my memory on the plot (it's another one of his trilogies) first but I'm pretty excited, esp. since I got it in hardcover for half-off.
Reading the older posts, all the Stephenson recommendations make me froth at the mouth. I don't want to say he's the most overrated sci-fi author ever, but I will if I have to.
The hilarious thing is I see myself mentioning I liked Snow Crash. The more I thought about it the less I liked it. It's a mess of a book, really.
Vivian on 19/10/2010 at 07:08
I dunno, I really don't get the hype over gibson, personally. I guess its hard to assess it now all the things that he invented are massively cliche, but apart from Neuromancer I've found what I've read of his to be more than a little shallow. Frederik Pohl, now there's your man. Gateway is still one of the best sci-fi concepts I've come across.
june gloom on 19/10/2010 at 07:10
As much as I slobber all over Gibson I will grant he is a terrible screenwriter.
