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What are you Reading?
Skrimskraw:
I am unable to read fiction, My concentration just ends there.
However I read some comics from time to time, and just finished preacher again.
Also I have received my history book: a companion to europe 1900-1945 which will act as inspiration for my finals at history.
Plasmarobo:
Finishing up "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke". Amazing set of 1950s -> 1990s scifi which really shows the progression culture and scifi in general has taken! (From OHGODNUCLEARPOWERISGREAT to "Warp drives, lasers, and cloning").
Still have a massive backlog. I don't read as much as I would like to, just a bit each night.
DMaximus:
--- Quote from: Pickle on August 12, 2013, 04:55:25 am ---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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Meiville is a little hit or miss with me, but in the end I always enjoy reading his books. I've been meaning to pick up some Iain M Banks for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm going to have to check some of those out.
Pickle:
--- Quote from: DMaximus on August 12, 2013, 04:02:38 pm ---Meiville is a little hit or miss with me, but in the end I always enjoy reading his books. I've been meaning to pick up some Iain M Banks for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm going to have to check some of those out.
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If you do, I recommend you start with either Consider Phlebas or The Player of Games. Excession is probably my favourite, but you're jumping in at the deep end with some of the concepts of the Culture.
I know what you mean about Chine Meiville, I really wasn't keen on Iron Council for some reason.
HamsterIV:
Last thing I read was the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. It does scifi space battles that obey most of the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Such as no faster than light communication. All speeds given in fractions of the speed of light. All distance given in light seconds or light minutes as well as noticeable delays in communication and information about objects far away. Some Faster than light transportation hand waving is done to permit one fleet to do battle in multiple solar systems without putting their crew in Cryo. It also plays off the resurrected legendary hero trope which I enjoy.
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