june gloom on 25/10/2013 at 08:54
As usual, never expect a straight answer from Queue. Pun intended.
Malf on 28/10/2013 at 17:23
Currently reading John Dies at the End.
Should I spoiler-tag that?
Very fun, off-the-wall stuff. I'm reading it with an aim to see the movie afterwards, but it's a thoroughly enjoyable romp on its own. Long too.
More stuff in the same vein as Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim and Charles Stross' Laundry books, with a bit of Burroughs thrown in for good measure.
catbarf on 7/11/2013 at 04:44
I just finished reading (
http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm) Blindsight, and I'll be damned if it isn't the most thought-provoking (in several aspects) piece of sci-fi I've read in the last couple of years. Has anyone else ever heard of this book? The author apparently uploaded the full text to his site due to issues with availability of the print version, so that's a whole novel right there.
Basic premise: Humanity discovers an alien vessel in the solar system. A team of transhumans is sent to make first contact, and finds an alien species that is actually
alien. The core theme to it is a very interesting twist that I'd rather not give away, so I'll just say that it's definitely worth reading.
Yamatotakeru on 28/11/2013 at 10:02
I've read Blindsight. It's indeed very thought provoking and very well researched. It's HARD sci-fi, so I can't say I understood all of it, but some of the images the book provokes are stuck in my head to this day. Definitely worth a look. And yeah, it's totally free on Peter Watts' page :cheeky:
Just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. After The Road, No Country for Old Men and THIS I can honestly say McCarthy's one of ma favorites and I'll try to collect anything written by him. Blood Meridian is a masterpiece of horror (I guess) about a 1850s american group of mercenary scalp-hunters. It's beyond gruesome and when I found out that a lot of the events mentioned in the book actually happened, and that most of the characters actually existed (especially one in particular) it felt kind of like discovering that there was a Count Dracula in real life :p .
faetal on 28/11/2013 at 13:36
I'm reading Cloud Atlas. It's great so far, much better than the film, but that's books in general IME.
Holographic705 on 30/11/2013 at 05:14
I just got done reading "Fantastic Voyage" by Isaac Asimov. It's about Soviet scientists who have made the technology to become so small that they go inside the human bloodstream and enter a blood clot in someone's brain. It was pretty awesome.:D
Queue on 30/11/2013 at 05:43
Never heard of it.
Wow. They should make that into a movie!
demagogue on 30/11/2013 at 08:36
There aren't nearly enough movies about Soviet hijinks come to think of it, real, fiction, fantasy, or otherwise.
They basically pulled the greatest troll of the 20th Century for 3/4 of a century, much of which was under wraps at the time. Surely there are some good stories to tell or make up out of it.
LoLion on 30/11/2013 at 09:45
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Wow. They should make that into a movie!
Actually there is a (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397/) movie based on this. I saw it like ages ago though I remember it being quite good.
