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I love Zodiac. Anyone who has ever had to deal with explaining environmental health measurements to laypeople is going to have to take a five-minute  break when the protagonist talks about telling people that pollution levels are over three times the legal limit, because if he tells them that the concentration is actually almost 10,000 times the legal limit then no one will believe him.
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Cimber posted:That is very possible. Holy poo poo.
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The first chapter is available to read here. edit: Oh poo poo, it's actually out today. Guess I'm not getting anything done this afternoon. withak fucked around with this message at 19:43 on May 19, 2015 |
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If you didn't like Diamond Age then you are beyond help, sorry.
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Guys the fact that the story jumps ahead 5,000 years is in every synopsis.
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May 22, 2015 14:57
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I thought that what was intended to be the departure of the Mars expedition got turned into the big split-off, at which point the Mars project got abandoned because they had bigger problems to deal with.
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My favorite part in Zodiac is when Our Hero is measuring contaminant levels in the creek and he always announces it as "more than twice the legal limit" because no one believes it when you say "10,000 times the legal limit".
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awesmoe posted:A compelling argument, but consider this - perhaps it is YOU who is the real racist! Confirming: real racist spotted
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The former
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The former
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It's more futuristic.
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I thought the entire purpose of the book was to answer "what would happen if the moon exploded".
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edit: wrong thread
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I think maybe you had to read it in the 90s. edit: vvv In the 90s when you were in high school is what I meant. withak fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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Jul 25, 2016 23:25
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https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Seveneves Here he mentions that he has just shipped some kind of historical time travel book.
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Gato posted:im going to go reread red mars Always sound advice.
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MrWilderheap posted:I just picked up The Diamond Age, and man it's really good! Last book of his I read was Cryptonomocon, which I thought was ok but it took me forever to finish. With the Diamond Age I can't put it down. Haven't finished it yet but I'd love it if he wrote another book in this universe, the technology is cool and I think the idea of people organizing into phyles as nations become irrelevant is really interesting. I think you will find that there is nothing Stephenson does that is not dorky.
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They are all good, read them all in order of publication.
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There might be a Snow Crash adaptation coming from Amazon next year: http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amazon-studios-lazarus-snow-crash-ringworld-1202576048/
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