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Could I recommend a return to roots with the twelve volumes edited by Judith Merill? The best of SciFi and Fantasy.
These are all short stories from 1956 onwards and very much of the time but reading forward you run into the sixtees when things got weird.
I have got Martian Chronicles and Foundation Series listed for a reread along with Aldiss and Bradbury.
Surprised Philip K Dick is not listed unless I missed a recommendation.
Skippy is awesome 🙂Shhh monkeyboy, a tincan can only please so many people.
I didn't get the ending of Anathem at first. Then I read it again much more carefully and I realised what was going on. Or rather - I realised what I should have been concentrating on the whole time. So I'll have to read it a third time. During which I may make notes and use them to research all the Earth maths and philosophy that it refers to. It might take me a few years but I should come out the other side much cleverer 🙂
I'm finding Seveneves reeeeeeaaaaaalllllllyyyyyyy....
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I'm at the Hard Rain Chapter and I'm kinda hoping it picks itself up out of the wordyness and gets into some kinda plot..
And the Mrs's has just bought me the Book of Arrival.. which I'm keen to read and may sideline Seveneves for it..
ChrisL - MemberAniclliary Justice by Ann Leckie.
I ****ing love these. Don't know why, I think there's barely a single page I [i]like[/i] after the first 50 pages or so, but put it all together and it's just gorgeous, it all goes around. I am susceptible to ships who sang I guess.
Here's a risky choice, the Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's a total mess, barely coherent at times and just ridiculously too wordy at others but it's glorious when it works. And I'm not just saying that because I suggested one of the plot points 😆
And if you've not read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, do. And even though it's completely irrelevant to your actual question, Flowers For Algernon, everyone should read Flowers For Algernon. And if I've not completely lost you by now, Stand On Zanzibar.
I'm a re-reader. I've read the Baroque Cycle three times ffs!
I think Seveneves gets better the more you read it...
Anathem is my favourite (probably read it a half dozen times.... 😳 ).
But even I have to admit there are some bits in Stephensons books that draaaaaaagggg....
Anyways, I enjoyed The Mongoloid series (only read the first three) of which Neal is a 'co-author'. Talking about the Mongol hordes and that.
The Long Earth series (Pratchett & Baxter) is worth reading.
Oh, so it's you!
Like most I found it utter drivel, never read Baxter but fail to see how Pratchett had any involvement given he wrote some decent sci-fi himself.
Just finished Ken MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy, like Nights Dawn it ends rather suddenly but if you can get over that it's really rather good as per the rest of his output (Newtons Wake is sci-fi whilst The Night Sessions is more of a crime book set in the future along the same lines as Paul Johnstons Quint Dalrymple books and Descent is a sci-fi thriller).
I started with The Player of Games and god I found it hard. It's good but does drop you in it somewhat. Still less of a slog to get going than Feersum Endjinn though. I'd imagine Use of Weapons or Consider Phlebas* would be easier going.