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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Just Finished Sawyers _Mindscan_. A pretty good book... do all of his books use the same material?
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Sawyer's got a bunch of pet themes which as far as I can tell, tend to show up in one form or another in all of his novel-length works*. You can read the non-novel versions of his thoughts on such over at his
Futurism page, which includes interviews and essays he did about his favourite science/technology/human consciousness topics.
(ETA: It turns out he actually has a
page where he lists the recurring themes in his works and where to find them by novel.)
As for me, currently re-loading the Kindle with new stuff in anticipation of a long transit ride to pick up another batch of the art books I bought during the Boxing Dale sale at the independent bookstore downtown.
Not sure what I'm actually going to read, but I think I'll only have the attention span for short stories, so I'll be loading up a bunch of anthologies to try the authors out.
* I've read pretty much everything he's ever written, with the exception of the latest novel and some of the short non/fiction pieces.