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I'll have to do a Crypto re-read sometime now that I have The Baroque Cycle under my belt. I believe it's the same gold in play in both stories, and I know they have a character in common.
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12-14-2017, 04:27 PM | #242 |
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I remember enjoying Gérard Klein's "The Overlords of War" sometime more than 17 years ago (highschool times). Must be red once again.
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12-22-2017, 11:03 AM | #244 |
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Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space and Poseidon's Children books are a lot of fun. They're hard, but not inhumanly hard, speculative science fiction. There are the usual deep thoughts (What is sentience?) and big questions (relating to the Fermi Paradox and future human evolution) but also loads of grotesquerie (Chasm City) and absurd satire (Absolution Gap).
Unlike Asimov, Reynolds describes things in detail, often playfully using clinical vocabulary to describe machines and planets. There is also some positronic space opera ("See androids fighting..."), but, when science must give way to story, "[Reynolds] tries not to be stupid about it." (I think that's what he said in a BBC interview. ) Unlike with Clarke's bland administrators, Baxter's corporados, and Stapledon's wispy demigods, one cares what happens to Reynold's mostly human-ish characters. |
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Any new suggestions on fantasy front. I'm finding myself stalled for new reads again. Are any of the Warhammer Fantasy novels worth reading?
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Any of the Culture series from Iain M Banks.
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05-25-2018, 03:24 AM | #251 |
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My fantasy time has been dominated by a first listen of the Wheel of Time series. I'm on the final volume now, on track to finish almost exactly a year from starting book one, with just a couple interludes of other audio (well, a full re-listen/read of the Stormlight Archives so far, finishing with the latest).
Stormlight is outstanding, if you're willing to jump into a series that's likely a decade or two from completion. Greg Bear's lone fantasy work from the '80s, Songs of Earth and Power (first published in two volumes, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage), is worth a read if you've overlooked it. In sci-fi, I've dug some good stuff out of Kindle Unlimited on my two trial/sale runs this past year: Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Nathan Lowell The Bobiverse Trilogy, Dennis E. Taylor Currently I'm reading Douglas Phillips' Quantum Void, right on the heels of Quantum Space. The prose and characterization are nothing special, but the hard sci-fi foundation and space-operatic expansion of the premises are satisfying. I don't go through enough books to make KU worthwhile at the normal pricing, but there is some good stuff in there. |
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I guess I'll take this to recommend the Warhammer 40k series, The Horus Heresy.
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