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i'll make up :O) |
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Jay! Snow crash! The Diamond Age! |
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rendezvous with rama by arthur c clarke |
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also if you dont have any books, films, comics etc.. just listen to bitstream and the like |
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Ha, I finally got a copy of Consider Phlebas this afternoon. I started reading the pirate pdf and got tired of reading on computer, and wanted to give the man some $$ because he's still alive. A++ so far. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge - in the far future, man and other species live in a galactic civilization separated by the "zones of thought" - the further you are from the galactic core, the more capable your brain and your technology are. it's fucking incredible read this one as soon as you can Diaspora by Greg Egan Nova by Samuel R. Delaney Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner some Phil K. Dick - Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Man in the High Castle (fuck me this one is great) |
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consider fleetmouse |
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I rushed to finish the book I was reading to start Consider Phlebas. I'm only about 7 chapters in but it's great so far. Just what the doctor ordered. Thanks for your recommendations. Will definitely put them on the "to do" list. |
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And to you, my sincere thanks. |
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This Earth is a pretty good science fiction story! |
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that has to be the best science fiction serious i have read, along side the foundation series by asimov i was waiting for the movie to be released, but it never got off the ground |
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Rendezvous with Rama wails. I have a such a detailed version of Rama in my mind that a movie based on it would hurt my head. |
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I just finished watching Gandahar, it was pretty neat. There were a couple silly things about the plot, but the soundtrack was killer! |
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I'm not sure why but I felt it necessary to clarify that I was only on chapter 5 when I thought I was on 7. I was so wrapped up in the story I hadn't been paying attention to which chapter I was even on. I'm on chapter 7 now. That is all. |
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I recommend anything by Theodore Sturgeon. |
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I finished Consider Phlebas. On the whole, 3.5/5. There was something off about the pacing. And I don't know, some of the descriptions of scenery and action scenes that should have been fun and effortless to read felt like a slog. Great ideas though. I hope the series picks up.. I might skip ahead and read Excession next. |
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I enjoyed Consider Phlebas, but I think the book began to bog down towards the end. It may have just been me but the final showdown in the subterranean rail system started out fine but seemed to drag that feeling of impending doom too far. By the time I had reached the end of the book, I felt a bit cheated somehow. Maybe I just had hoped for a happier ending. I love the universe Banks created though, and went to the bookstore upon finishing it to grab the next book in the series. I heartily recommend The Player of Games which I am about two thirds through now, and which, assuming the ending doesn't sucker punch me the way Phlebas did, is a better read in every way. |
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Ahhh.. The Player of Games.. I know someone who went MENTAL and started living their life as if they were. .. the player of games. |
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I'll admit I don't think that would be too terrible, but I'm biased as I generally look at everything through the lens of games already. |
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I stopped by the book store today in hopes of getting A Fire Upon The Deep, but the bastards didn't have it. |
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ubik - philip k dick snow crash - neal stephenson |
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many good ones already mentioned: banks, asimov, clarke etc. |
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Use of Weapons is my favourite Banks book. A truly fucked up story and the strange narrative style works very well. The most recent Culture novel, Matter, is great too, although I do feel that Banks tried too hard to make it movie-adaptation-ready or something. And the characters were less interesting. |
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Primer, the movie. Stephenson keeps fairly close to reality. Nearest to space SF in his stuff is (rough descending order) Anathem. |
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Was gonna say also Snow Crash and The Diamond Age by Stephenson, but they're steampunk-ish, not space SF. |
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nipples :D |
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ha, watching that show atm, missed it before |
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I finished The Player of Games and it was fantastic, heartily recommended. I then read Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein as I've heard it said to be a classic science fiction story. It was interesting for its take on world government but sort of ended abruptly. It wasn't as action-packed as I had been led to believe by the synopses on the back cover and I began to lose interest toward the end. 3.5/5. I found a copy of Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and will be cracking that open tonight. |
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thanks for the linkup :) i already have it downed on my multimedia hd on tv. a gadget i highly recommend; just came to that episode with the shower, was a funny one. |
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random SF>>> kurt vonnegut is top too- try slaughter house 5. herbert's dune also. |
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That looks interesting, will see about picking up a copy. Thanks for the recommendation, sire. About Vonnegut, I've been a fan for years and recently reread Schlachthof-funf. That book along with is what got me started on this whole job. ^^ |
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Not exactly science fiction, but you might want to consider read-playing The Glass Bead Game. It's a Utopian fantasy as only you could imagine it! |
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alfred bester |
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I'll look into it, thanks! |
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Just polished off Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312. Pretty hard sci-fi, set in the same universe as his amazing Mars series. Great most of the way through, thought the conclusion was a bit unimaginative IMO Might try the Mortal Engines series next - anyone familiar with it? |
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I definitely recommend the short story anthologies of Philip K dick, fucking hell his brain should have been saved for future posterity, i'm going to follow some suggestions made in this thread, reading the forever war by Joe Haldeman next. |
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I have never actually read any Dick, nor much of the cyberpunk/dystopian side of sci-fi. Except perhaps John Brunner Actually when I first read Stand on Zanzibar a few years back, the only aspect that I thought was unbelievable was the low-level smouldering war between the US and China. I thought that wars between nation states would be a thing of the past, and that future wars would be asymmetric things between states and irregular forces. Alas, the recent Russia/Ukraine thing proved me wrong. John Brunner predicted the early 21st Century pretty accurately IMO |
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you've never read any dick buy you've definately sucked dick |
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I will hunt you down and suck your dick. And you will love it |
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I have read a lot of PKD i guess you could call me a dick-head |
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I'm a massive dickhead i must admit; |
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space opera scifi: peter hamilton - fallen dragon iain m banks - culture series neurotic/psychological scifi: pkd - ubik, three stigmata, man in the high castle, our friends from frolix 8, best of pkd (short stories), etc. strugatsky - far rainbow, roadside picnic, time wanderers bradbury (somewhat less accurately in this category) - basically any collection of short stories "hard" scifi: greg egan - quarantine, dark integers kim stanley robinson - mars trilogy military scifi: haldeman - forever war scalzi - old man's war world building, interesting worlds/cultures: delany - nova, babel 17, triton, driftglass vance - dying earth post-apocalyptic earth: wolfe - book of the new sun misc: stanislaw lem - cyberiad vonnegut - slaughterhouse 5 |
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Moorcock - The Dancers at the End of Time |
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I trolled John Scalzi on twitter |
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I trolled John Scalzi on twitter |
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