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schilds ladder - a bit weird if i remember?

reading this instead.. novella, only taking a few hours. easier reading and quite fun:

 

Anathem is still my favorite recent sf book by a landslide, you should stick with it IMO.

 

PKD is mostly overrated but this thread is basically a PKD love echo chamber and I'm not going to convince anyone.

I read Anathem, didnt like it

I like Dick ( ) but the endings and beginnings generally suck. The middle bit is generally good though.

I've only read Ubik and A Scanner Darkly and they are both phenomenal imo.

finished yesterdays kin. was nice. Kept me hooked up till the end. 3.5/4 stars.

decided to read the southern reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. never read him before. its good so far. easy pacing which is nice, and a nebula winner

  On 7/1/2015 at 1:03 AM, lala said:

decided to read the southern reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. never read him before. its good so far. easy pacing which is nice, and a nebula winner

It's a good trilogy. The second book has its dodgy bits, and kinda meanders around more than you hope, but is well worth it as a part of the three when taken together.

 

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ah good old dodgy bits. i quite enjoyed justin cronins 'the passage' trilogy - waiting now for the third part. i thought the first book was really well written apart from a seriously dodgy bit in the middle that just left me confused as to why the hell you put that in a decent book...

still worth a read tho

  On 6/30/2015 at 6:43 PM, lala said:

schilds ladder - a bit weird if i remember?

Quite insane at times lol. Egan takes his ideas as far as they go (and then some) but it never gets nonsensical.

i know it had the space station but was it the one where they became really small and flat and fought a war inbetween sheets of ice or something?

No ice AFAIK, it's the space station on the edge of an expanding area with alternate laws of physics (cellular automaton stuff) which they enter somehow and which is quite hostile to them.

I really liked the idea of how people are perfectly okay with their identity being only information, and sending themselves through space as radio waves etc.., I think it's similar to Diaspora in that.

But now I'm curious what sheets of ice you're talking about :P Just started reading book 1 of the Orthogonal trilogy, so far it's pretty cool.

Edited July 2, 2015 by th555

Dmitry Glukovsky - Metro 2033

  On 7/2/2015 at 4:43 PM, th555 said:

No ice AFAIK, it's the space station on the edge of an expanding area with alternate laws of physics (cellular automaton stuff) which they enter somehow and which is quite hostile to them.

I really liked the idea of how people are perfectly okay with their identity being only information, and sending themselves through space as radio waves etc.., I think it's similar to Diaspora in that.

But now I'm curious what sheets of ice you're talking about :P Just started reading book 1 of the Orthogonal trilogy, so far it's pretty cool.

 

Yeah i do remember it, they have asian sounding names, or one of the female characters has an asian sounding name.

 

i cant for the life of me remember the ice one. they are fighting wars for some reason but they arent all necessarily human-sized format. i cant remember.

 

Nearly finished annihilation - i like it. its serious enough (so far )& i like books that dont make things obvious, im enjoying getting drawn in to the world.

 

 

got quite a few nebula nominee and winners novella to read also

  On 7/2/2015 at 8:59 PM, Muflontillah said:

Dmitry Glukovsky - Metro 2033

 

Ohh, I finished this recently, it's great. You can tell the dude had a whole lot of fun coming up with the world/society for it.

I own the game and played it until that first ventilator thingie... I own even the Metro 2034 book, but I don´t really believe in that Future book of his,... yet

really enjoying second part of southern reach, being in report stylee

I feel like this is currently more relevant to this thread than the films thread - To people into Southern Reach: Alex Garland, who recently directed Ex Machina, is directing a film adaptation of Annihilation. Haven't seen Ex Machina yet, but I like his fiction. Annihilation is also probably my favorite book of the three, so I'm v. excited.

Edited July 5, 2015 by Vilwx

noice!

Still trying to read Moneyball, which is a awesome next book after reading Freakonomics.

Just finished The Long Walk, don't know why I stayed away from King's Bachman books for so long as this completely kicked my arse. Brutal premise and dusted it off in three days, and he was only 18 when he wrote it. Talented bugger, Roadwork is up next.

Ive never read and im a king fan

  On 7/6/2015 at 4:26 PM, tec said:

Just finished The Long Walk, don't know why I stayed away from King's Bachman books for so long as this completely kicked my arse. Brutal premise and dusted it off in three days, and he was only 18 when he wrote it. Talented bugger, Roadwork is up next.

 

ffffuuuuu, that's insane.

 

I'm just about to start reading Ulysses, held off for ages because I suspected it might be a load of pretentious wank but I was flicking through it yesterday whilst quite baked and it caught my interest; only on the introduction so far but we'll see how this goes...

I started the dark tower once and didnt get into it. i really should, im such a fan of kings writing when he nails it.

 

 

ahaha i knew i recognised it somehow - in '1408' the writer is doing a book signing and a girl comes up and talks about 'the long walk' and if it was anything to do with his childhood as it was so well written. he denies it, but you know it was.

 

no spoilers thanks but thats a clear reference - maybe thats why it comes across so well for a young adults story.