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What are you Reading?
Mill Wilkinson:
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibonè. A book my friend threw at me and told to read. Enjoyable night-time read thus far, nothing as deep or intellectual as previous ones.
But I do recommend reading Chris Evans' A Darkness Forged In Fire, a fantastic musket-punk with fantasy. ^^
Pickle:
--- Quote from: Keon on August 09, 2013, 10:11:00 am ---I fear I may need to by Swallow's book. Reading a Neal Stephenson right now.
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I'm half-way through re-reading Skinner by Neal Asher.
Psyching myself up for another re-read of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I've read it two or three times since it came out, it takes me three months to get through it all.
Shukketsushi:
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of WWII by Keith Lowe. I'm not very far into it yet but I find it really fascinating.
DMaximus:
--- Quote from: Pickle on August 09, 2013, 06:43:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: Keon on August 09, 2013, 10:11:00 am ---I fear I may need to by Swallow's book. Reading a Neal Stephenson right now.
--- End quote ---
I'm half-way through re-reading Skinner by Neal Asher.
Psyching myself up for another re-read of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I've read it two or three times since it came out, it takes me three months to get through it all.
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Neal Stephenson is amazing, I have Cryptonomicon and Anathem sitting on my shelf now (the rest are at my parents house). Zodiac is about Boston, so I have to love that one (even if it's about how polluted the area is). I pretty much love all of his writing.
If you liked his more sci fi stuff (like Diamond Age and Snow Crash) I highly recommend picking up some William Gibson. Neuromancer is a classic and a must read for any SF fan. His more recent books aren't hard SF (no more cyberpunk, sadly) but they're all quality. I'm struggling to describe them well, so I'll simply state that they are always enlightening each one makes you think about something you likely haven't considered before.
Pickle:
My copies of Count Zero and Mona Lisa Interrupt are probably older than many players of GOIO!
Neuromancer I had to replace more recently after losing it a while ago. I have most of the novels of Neal Stephenson, William Gibson Iain M Banks and China Meiville sat on my shelf. All the Laundry novels by Charles Stross (highly recommended if you like HP Lovecraft and have a sense of humour), several Paolo Bacigalupi (I've got to recommend The Windup Girl), there's some Ken MacLeod, Peter F. Hamilton (I can recommend Great North Road) .. .. and that's just some of the sci-fi..
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