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Rereading The Void Trilogy right on the heels of The Commonwealth Saga (instead of two years apart like the first time I read them). OMG these books are amazing. Peter F. Hamilton drinking game: Every time he describes an object or vehicle as "ovoid" take a shot.
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Bolow posted:If I did this with enzyme-bonded-concrete in the The Commonwealth Saga, I would be dead. I'm going through the trilogy right now for the first time and the first book really dragged on for awhile kind of like the first 1/3rd of Pandora's Star but man Book 2 is pretty intense. I'm about halfway through the second book. Reading it with my wife (she's reading for the first time). I can't wait for the awesome parts coming up to blow her mind.
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General Battuta posted:Hobnob's neural nanonics datavised the post to the private forum, where he had bought a membership for ten fuseodollars The payment was untraceable. He'd made it from a one-time account over the unisphere.
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GlassElephant posted:In Japanese manga & web/light novels the standard plot device to kill off a character so that they can be reincarnated into fantasy land is to have a semi plow into them as they are crossing the street/pushing someone out of the way. Libluini posted:Interesting, I wrote a novel like that. Just in my case, the plot device was the two protagonists falling down a ravine together and cracking their heads. Me too but a fanfic. Anyway, I popped in to ask if anyone besides me cried at the end of Asimov's Forward the Foundation and, if yes, do you remember how it ended? Because all I can remember was that I cried and I can't actually remember the ending itself or most of the plot. On the upside I guess that means I can read a great book again as if for the first time.
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Based on this thread I picked up the Golden Age trilogy and am 2 chapters into Phoenix Exultant. It's got some really interesting and fun ideas but lol at the hero. It reads a little like a Mary Sue fic set in the future of Atlas Shrugged where John Galt has rebuilt society.
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That Works posted:So would you recommend reading it? I would. It's very fun. It reminds me a lot of the later Sword of Truth books in theme if not style. If you've read the Culture books this has a similar sort of setting and tech level except ultra anarcho-capitalist instead of socialist.
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Just got to the part in Phoenix Exultant where our hero is explaining to the ghetto dwellers how to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. "If there are no jobs, why not start your own business?"
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Biomute posted:Consider Phlebas reads like a grimdark rpg setting. I happen to like that, but The Player of Games is a better starting point and "literature". Consider Phlebas won my heart with the line "The Idiran carried a plasma rifle the size of a small field artillery piece... in his other hand, he held a slightly bigger gun" when describing the Idiran breaking through the wall to rescue Phlebas.
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Also, the Golden Ouecumene trilogy really reads like Atlas Shrugged in space a lot of the time. I just got to the part where The Earthmind appears to Phaethon to reveal to him the secret of how to kill a Sophotech and I'm half expecting him to slay the bad guy with a John Galt speech.
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Also I'm becoming fairly sure that there are a lot of deliberate digs at the Culture in these books. Like the part where our hero goes on about how a post-scarcity society would still definitely use money because all rational societies would necessarily use money.
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Captain Monkey posted:Why are you reading it then? Atlas Shrugged has always been trash, how does adding lasers make it worth reading? Um because it's still fun? The sci fi concepts are very cool and like n4 said, I'm willing to look past his obvious agenda for an entertaining story.
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