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I finally have The Martian by Andrew Weir. Better late than never. This book is really highly recommended by everyone although I don't get my hopes extremely high since I'm dipping into the unsual Sci-Fi waters.
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After finishing Simak's A Heritage of Stars - which feels very Golden Age, despite being written in 1977 - I've decided Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline is the logical next book. Same general concept, written in the same year, but I think it'll have a much more "modern" feel to it. If nothing else, the two approaches should be interesting to compare.
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I'm not a big SciFi fan either but thoroughly enjoyed this one. Like the movie Gravity, it's science fiction not science fantasy. Be interested in what you think.
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Reading Tom Holt's When It's a Jar. I'm not sure why I had never heard of Tom Holt before, but I'm really enjoying this and I really enjoyed the preceeding book Doughnut.
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^I've heard a lot of positive vibe from that book. I'll be curious how it goes.
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The Martian is very dramatic, and I think accessible to even non-scifi readers, we'll see, huh?
I enjoyed The Golem and the Jinni, too. Today is the first day of World Literature (since Rennaisance), so I am browsing through Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern. |
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This is a good choice for a first venture. It's "near" in that the location (Mars) and time (could be 10-20 years) are close to where & when we are living. So it doesn't require any serious stretch of the imagination. It feels almost contemporary. And that may be why it was so widely acclaimed.
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I was going to read The Martian but now decided to wait for the movie in November.
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You may also want to investigate Jasper Fforde's work, if you haven't already. |
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