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View Poll Results: Which science-fiction book will spark our imaginations in August? | |||
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke | 13 | 27.08% | |
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs | 8 | 16.67% | |
Lost Horizon by James Hilton | 11 | 22.92% | |
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks | 15 | 31.25% | |
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatskys brothers | 15 | 31.25% | |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | 12 | 25.00% | |
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card | 18 | 37.50% | |
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds | 13 | 27.08% | |
Solaris by Lem Stanislaw | 11 | 22.92% | |
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis | 19 | 39.58% | |
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08-06-2013, 11:34 AM | #46 |
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No, don't worry about it, all will become clear!
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08-07-2013, 05:29 PM | #47 |
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You can understand it just as much as the character hearing it. Don't worry about it.
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08-18-2013, 01:18 PM | #48 |
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I've started Doomsday and am about 100 pages or so in, and one thing that has really struck me so far is how dated certain things in the "near future" feel despite the book being written relatively recently. I expect it of old sci-fi books and films, or even those 70s ones (I even just watched a really fantastic 70s German sci-fi film about virtual reality called "World on a Wire", but I digress), but one from the 90s? It's a little jarring!
In the author's defence though, near-future sci-fi would have to be the easiest fiction to become quickly dated, and we can't expect her to have predicted the absolute dominance of mobile phones and the internet. But it is the phones in particular that are so funny about this future, mainly because they're such an important plot element over and over again these first 100 pages. I find it entertaining though, and I basically imagine this as an alternate history where mobile phones and the internet as we know it never happened, a sort of unintentional nouveau-steampunk maybe ("landlinepunk"? ). |
08-18-2013, 02:02 PM | #49 |
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Hahaha... I also kept thinking about mobile phones while I read that part and how she couldn't predict them. The lines are often times engaged, a thing that also happens with mobile phone, but hey, they do have video calls.
O.S. Card did a better prediction. In "Ender's Game"'s near future, internet forums play an important role in everyday life. |
08-18-2013, 05:18 PM | #50 |
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Perhaps leave this for the discussion thread?
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08-20-2013, 12:15 AM | #51 |
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Is there a reason for waiting so long before we can put up comments? I assume it's so as not to spoil things for those who haven't read it yet, but surely in that case those people could simply not look at the thread until they were ready?
I'm going away for 10 days early tomorrow morning Australian time, so won't be able to make any comment until I'm back. By that time there probably won't be much point, so I shall just say here that I enjoyed it and gave it four stars. |
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But since it is now the 20th, you can add your comments in the August 2013 discussion thread of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=220478 |
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08-20-2013, 02:04 AM | #53 |
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Ah, thank you Tom. Sorry - I was thinking the thread would be going up on 20 August your time, rather than UK time.
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