Not Dhalgren but I have a copy of Babel-17 somewhere.
Early Gibson gets naffer by the year.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Not Dhalgren but I have a copy of Babel-17 somewhere.
Early Gibson gets naffer by the year.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Everyone keeps mentioning Roadside Picnic. Must be good!
TruXta
tired
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
thats the trouble with being on the bleeding edge at the time. You age badly. Stross will look tthe same in a few years...
TruXta
tired
Was he ever cutting edge? More like pulp if you ask me. Entertaining sure, but. Stross that is.
Best sci fi book I've read in yonks has been Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot. I wasn't expecting anything special (picked it up off-handedly because I liked the cover and was abroad at Christmas) and thought it was incredible. Best bits of George Saunders, M John Harrison and Gibson combined. Palpably weird and excellent.
Pattern Recognition / Spook Country are great but tried to re-read Neuromancer and some other early stuff recently and it just made me
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TruXta
tired
Fairy nuff.Pattern Recognition / Spook Country are great but tried to re-read Neuromancer and some other early stuff recently and it just made me
Read Gene Wolfe? I enjoyed Book of the New Sun a lot. Pretty dense, but the prose is fantastic.
TruXta
tired
Search out his early novel Peace if you can find it. A wonderful book.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
That the one about the Autistic kid?
smorodina
Where is my Mercian?
yep.
had to skip the bits with the intentional bad grammar/ spelling (hard to describe without spoiling the plot
ps. they put it on stage in the west end already..
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Happy Birthday Turke! by Jakob Arjouni. Bought all his Kayankaya novels when I was in Berlin. Also started reading my first Raymond Chandler - the Big Sleep.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Harry Turtledove 'After the Fall'
a wechmacht officer is one minute fighting the russians in berlin, next plonked down in a fantasy world. Amusing.
a wechmacht officer is one minute fighting the russians in berlin, next plonked down in a fantasy world. Amusing.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
He has a story in the Mammonth Book of Alternate Histories I am currently reading. Not got to his yet but there has been some excellent ones, such as Kim Stanley Robinson's "Lucky Strike", which have, at times, tested my knowledge of history.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they call him 'The master of Alt History apparently. Any Robert Silverburg in yer mammoth book of? his Roma Aeturnum alt. history shorts are well worth your time
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Yup, one of his in there too. Not got to it yet but called "Tales from the Venia Woods"
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'Stone Gods' Jeannete Winterson
its...its brilliant. Some of the most archly funny SF I have read in a long time. Its not space opera. Prose style is brittle-pisstakey. Like harlan ellison or dicks without the paranoia. If the plotting holds up this could be a keeper.
its...its brilliant. Some of the most archly funny SF I have read in a long time. Its not space opera. Prose style is brittle-pisstakey. Like harlan ellison or dicks without the paranoia. If the plotting holds up this could be a keeper.
Silverghost
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"I am The Messenger," by Markus Zuzak.
Chick Webb
Countryfile and a can
That's a brilliant book. That's the one I recommend to non-scifi folks who ask me for a recommendation. I <3 Morgan.
I'm reading Un Lon Dun by China Mieville now. I will reserve my opinion on it until I'm finished.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Am giving the Alternate Realities book a rest and have started Arnaldur Indridason's "Jar City". Only just started it but it's shaping up well
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
having a re-read of City & The City as it was the first paperback to come to hand as I left to make an extended bus trip.
third time now, and in this run-through I'm noticing how Tyador Borlu is preternaturally good at sensing the ebb and flow of forces in fringe politics- for a weary street copper. Now OK the besz/ul qoma set up does mean the citizens of the cities are placed in constant awareness of the nature of power etc but its ever so slightly mary sue. Can't fault all the little invented linguistic touches though.
third time now, and in this run-through I'm noticing how Tyador Borlu is preternaturally good at sensing the ebb and flow of forces in fringe politics- for a weary street copper. Now OK the besz/ul qoma set up does mean the citizens of the cities are placed in constant awareness of the nature of power etc but its ever so slightly mary sue. Can't fault all the little invented linguistic touches though.
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