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well i've still got an audible credit on the US store. gimme a suggestion. not a culture novel.
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syscall girl posted:chances are they're having a better time than you with your billions of connected devices wish you'd take another one so we wouldn't have to read You Are Poasts
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vOv posted:wish you'd take another one so we wouldn't have to read You Are Poasts there's still time
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Silver Alicorn posted:well i've still got an audible credit on the US store. gimme a suggestion. not a culture novel. canticle for leibowitz
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DiggityDoink posted:canticle for leibowitz
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Silver Alicorn posted:yeah but I'll have to pay money & it probably won't work because I couldn't put a billing address outside aus ah, you used a freebie code? Silver Alicorn posted:well i've still got an audible credit on the US store. gimme a suggestion. not a culture novel. http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Passage-at-Arms-Audiobook/B00MPUOB8U http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Count-Zero-Audiobook/B0036JSWXY http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/House-of-Suns-Audiobook/B002V8LCH4
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i think the hardest thing to wrap my head around was the fact that there are still people living like that in the world right now The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. —William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4 2003
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Silver Alicorn posted:well i've still got an audible credit on the US store. gimme a suggestion. not a culture novel. Pump Six. It's a collection of short stories. NWS,but it isn't pornography. Heresiarch posted:standalone complex is pretty awesome just for having the climactic confrontation with the bad guy be a fifteen minute philosophical conversation in a library I just saw the Arise film. I feel like it is worth watching, and a satisfying conclusion to all of GitS. It isn't stunningly good, just competent, more of the same, if you aren't sick of it. I feel like the weakest parts of GitS are when Mokoto is monologuing about philosophy (either to the viewer directly or a viewer-analogue like those kids in the new movie) I really hope they decide to kill the IP after the 2017 live action film inevitably fails, because I don't want to see this go down the road Evangelion has with REMAKES FOREVER to try to keep squeezing money out of the fans. NoneMoreNegative posted:The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. —William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4 2003 "The future" is in your head. I myself have made arrowheads by knapping flint, and killed game (not with those arrowheads though, with a rifle) to eat. It is an error of the greatest sort to assume that people who do not have the same complexity of apparent technology are primitive. They simply lack an industrial base- their technology is in many ways more refined than the artifacts that surround us, especially the computer janitors of the world. This forums software, for example, is many times cruder than, say,a finely crafted pump drill. vBulletin has had about the same amount of attention and time and craftsmanship applied to many, many more parts and the end result is cruder and less refined than the "primitive" stone tipped drill. Industry and production are not ends in themselves. Neither is technology or "the future" (assuming you mean time for the sake of time, and not Utopian visions) e: canticle for leibowitz should be read, not audiobooked imo, but maybe if you got an old man with tuberculosis to read it it could sound right Keldoclock fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Nov 14, 2015 |
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DiggityDoink posted:tainticle for lebowicz
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Silver Alicorn posted:I had to make an australian audible account to get look to windward don't put yourself through this, just myanonamouse it
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ol qwerty bastard posted:like we've got loving spaceships and lasers and grocery stores and poo poo, and there are literally people, right now as i'm typing this on a computer connected to a global communications network of billions of other computers, hitting a stone with another stone to make a spear head so they can go hunt wild game they probably also have cell phones these days
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i actually really liked shaman, as much as it was just diary of a teenage caveman there can't be more than a few thousand of these people most "uncontacted" peoples still acquire metal tools and poo poo via trade. nobody knaps stone if any alternative is available
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Keldoclock posted:e: canticle for leibowitz should be read, not audiobooked imo, but maybe if you got an old man with tuberculosis to read it it could sound right a canticle for leibowitz seems like it would make an awful audiobook. it's quite long, it uses multiple narrators, and much of the text is the interior thoughts of these narrators. it is a good book though
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Bhodi posted:don't put yourself through this, just myanonamouse it cheddar
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a canticle for leibowitz seems like it would make an awful audiobook. it's quite long, it uses multiple narrators, and much of the text is the interior thoughts of these narrators. otoh the almanacs of lies by John Hodgman are wonderful audiobooks
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a canticle for leibowitz seems like it would make an awful audiobook. it's quite long, it uses multiple narrators, and much of the text is the interior thoughts of these narrators. Having listened to it as an audiobook, it's not that big a deal. The Latin passages would have been a lot easier to grasp in text form, though.
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fwiw the audiobook of american gods is really good
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so what have you burned your credit on?
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nothing yet. i'm indecisive
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house of suns sounds cool
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Silver Alicorn posted:house of suns sounds cool if you like john lee it's good
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Trig Discipline posted:fwiw the audiobook of american gods is really good agreed
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Trig Discipline posted:fwiw the audiobook of american gods is really good that is surprising because american gods is bad
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A Pinball Wizard posted:that is surprising because american gods is bad i believe if you check again you will find that it is you who are bad
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Neil Gayman
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Kneel, Gayman
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gently caress
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Tanith posted:if you like john lee it's good he sounds alright! I just like audiobooks because I'm on the train a lot and I don't always get a seat robert lister's reading of look to windward was actually fine aside from the audio being degraded. and the audio cd version is $60 lol
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Silver Alicorn posted:house of suns sounds cool house of suns is my favorite reynolds and probably in my top 10 sci-fi books
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vOv posted:house of suns is my favorite reynolds and probably in my top 10 sci-fi books saaaaaame
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i finished the ancillary trilogy and i'm a little disappointed there's some really great worldbuilding there, particularly in the first book, but the plot makes no god drat sense. she kinda handwaves it all with "well anaander is crazier than a shithouse rat, so don't expect a motive!!!!" the second and third books are a very frustrating, meandering conclusion to a really great start. still worth reading, though. plot holes or not, nothing in the ancillary set is horrible like the second and third books of Simmon's "shrike" trilogy
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i liked house of suns a lot but it definitely felt very Dan Dare in places. i preferred his grubbier scifi, e.g. Chasm City or The Prefect
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I got the sense that the bits of Latin in the book would have been comprehensible to a Catholic who grew up before Vatican II, in that they tended to be either direct references to the liturgy or theological concepts. They don't have much effect on your understanding of the story or even the conversations where Latin comes up.
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that reminds me, is the poseidon's children trilogy worth finishing? i read blue remembered earth and thought it was alright
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Hogge Wild posted:Old Man's War and Forever War. I read those but thanks Between Canticle for Leibowitz and Simmons' Hyperion books I think sci-fi authors are trying to make me go to church Actually speaking of the Hyperion books... The 1st is great, the 2nd is OK, and the 3rd is just bad, IMO. Lot of stuff in the 3rd book that's just there for no reason Larry Parrish fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Nov 14, 2015 |
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Larry Parrish posted:I read those but thanks could you/rest of the thread recommend other books like them basically, good military scifi
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Hogge Wild posted:could you/rest of the thread recommend other books like them Honestly I really liked Starship Troopers. People like to think of it as Heinlein chest-thumping about the military but it reads a lot more like an enlisted guy who later gets commissioned as an officer chest-thumping about the military. Which is what the main character is.
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Larry Parrish posted:Honestly I really liked Starship Troopers. People like to think of it as Heinlein chest-thumping about the military but it reads a lot more like an enlisted guy who later gets commissioned as an officer chest-thumping about the military. Which is what the main character is. Yeah, I kinda liked it.
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