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lol Eragon author Christopher Paolini announces first science-fiction novel quote:https://ew.com/books/2019/11/19/christopher-paolini-to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-science-fiction-novel/
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I was reading the blurb for William Gibson’s new book that’s coming out in a couple weeks’ time - it’s a follow-up to the Peripheral. That’s cool but the present day narrative takes place in an alternative timeline where Hillary Clinton won. Gibson has been exhibiting terminal centrism for sometime now on Twitter so I hope he doesn’t bring it into the book
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Jan 12, 2020 00:50
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lol apparently there’s a vague nuclear conflict looming in the Middle East in the book so talk about reality overtaking fiction
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Jan 12, 2020 01:55
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Lmao, just got started on the new Gibson book and he spins the alternate history Clinton win as potentially being due to a “reduction in Russian manipulation of social media” Terminal Succ
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Jan 22, 2020 10:11
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Gibson’s still a good writer but his personal political views are OK Boomer level
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Jan 22, 2020 13:55
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It’s crazy to me that Gibson is in his seventies
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Jan 28, 2020 05:31
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lol never follow authors you like on twitter https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1178063798743244800?s=20
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Jan 31, 2020 00:08
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She’s a Warren supporter so I think it’s safe to say she has dumb political views
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Jan 31, 2020 04:32
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Kesper North posted:Gibson usually seems like he's making fun of or outright critiquing liberal centrist boomerism to me. Nah, like I said, don’t read his Twitter. It’s the worst of boomer succdem mindset
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Jan 31, 2020 22:57
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Are there any good virus/pandemic/apocalypse books people would recommend?
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Mar 19, 2020 01:26
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lol when did they announce this? Apple just dropped a trailer for a series based on Asimov's Foundation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbPSA94Rqg
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Jun 23, 2020 04:29
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Most writers are pretty good about responding to a nice email - I had an exchange with Alastair Reynolds a decade ago when he was writing the Revelation Space books
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Oct 12, 2020 11:33
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lol while rereading "the man in the high castle", I noticed that someone IRL has actually published a book called "the grasshopper lies heavy" pulling the same alternate world/war history trope (the reviews for it are pretty bad). are there other examples of a third party actualizing a fictional piece of fiction?
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Nov 18, 2020 11:34
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space marine todd posted:I had an absolute blast with The Ministry For The Future (along with Gibson's The Peripheral and Agency) and I'd love more recommendations of...near-future speculative fiction? I liked Pattern Recognition, but couldn't get into Spook Country. I have to respect KSR for not just writing about unilateral geoengineering but actual eco terrorist cells killing individuals most responsible for climate change
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Dec 24, 2020 08:57
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inhibitor phase was a decent return to the revelation space universe but made me notice (in a bad way) how often reynolds pulls the amnesiac narrative trick
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Sep 7, 2021 08:48
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I've been re-reading most of the Iain Banks (M and non-M) books and I was a bit surprised that they've dated somewhat poorly imo, at least relative to when I read them in the early naughts as a teenager. It's more obvious in his non-M books where he often writes from the POV of a rich young toff "slumming" it and working out some childhood trauma, while making it in the business world just seems very cloying in this moment. And his writing of Asians/Asia comes off as very patronising in a skyscrapers mixed with coolies acting as a backdrop for his jetsetting characters.
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Nov 17, 2021 02:02
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stephenson being a weirdo libertarian isn't surprising i'm more puzzled by gibson being a centrist liberal (and twitter scold) who mentions hillary clinton winning being a key plot difference for the agency book
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Nov 18, 2021 02:58
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the adrian tchaikovsky novella (?) elder race is a good standalone SF story he's incredibly consistent and prolific in output over multiple, unrelated series
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Nov 24, 2021 23:51
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underground airlines and golden state didn't work for me - the starting premises should have made for drastically different worlds
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Nov 29, 2021 03:46
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i've been speeding through a bunch of adrian tchaikovsky over the past week - the expert system novellas (and a weird eldritch tales anthology) i guess he really does have a thing for colonists fighting a hostile planet
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Dec 3, 2021 00:32
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i read SFF translated in Japanese all the time (most recently Dune, the Witcher novels etc). mostly for practice murakami haruki (who is a noted translator of English literature as well as being a writer in his own right) wrote a series of essays about translation which i found fascinating. it's not just about the act of translating but deciding what books to translate
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Dec 5, 2021 02:19
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the countries modelled after real world cultures is pretty iffy nowadays especially the portrayals of asians and middle easterners
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Dec 6, 2021 05:25
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https://twitter.com/PaulLev/status/1594043576471539712
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Nov 22, 2022 07:30
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Benefit of an Amazon UK account from my time living in London
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Nov 24, 2022 02:37
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finished children of memory - decent but probably the weakest of the trilogy i think he was a bit stuck with the worldbuilding from the first two books which made it hard to do justice to the various factions and introduce a new one
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Nov 26, 2022 01:50
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i've started reading neal stephenson's termination shock and it's not as bad as i was expecting that being said, he has multiple characters deliberately explain why they're not left or right-wing which seems peculiar
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Nov 27, 2022 07:38
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it's hard to treat the culture books as saying anything interesting politically when you've read the non-M books and see the same self-indulgent protags except they're living in 80-90s UK
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Mar 11, 2023 13:45
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just finished adrian tchaikovsky's city of last chances and was pleasantly surprised by his take on "fantasy". i've always seen him as a hard SF guy the book reminded me of perdido street station in many ways would anyone have books reccos on baroque urban fantasies in the vein of the two abovementioned books?
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Jun 3, 2023 14:38
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it was for posting a 4 out of 5 stars review on GoodRead so even odder
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Jun 5, 2023 01:24
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it's unfortunate 9/11 broke dan simmon's brain, Ilium/Olympos were bad
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Jun 6, 2023 03:04
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thankfully, tying 9/11 to a 1800s Artic expedition was beyond him
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Jun 6, 2023 03:16
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yeah it's a great book and i haven't come across anything else that does the occult le carre mash as well
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Jul 18, 2023 13:34
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did my latest re-read of the iain m banks culture novels i guess all books "smell" of the time and place they were written in and i'm seeing it more clearly with his book these days the exoticisms of the culture setting (drug glanding, casual gender changes etc.) and the set pieces meant to shock (the cult eating poo poo) are pretty staid by modern standards.
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Aug 14, 2023 03:38
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I've always thought Vinge was incredibly prescient about networked surveillance and degraded information archives but those were already irl Internet issues at the time he wrote the Zone series
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Aug 16, 2023 07:51
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re-reading the gateway series by frederik pohl - still love the central idea of a asteroid full of ships which go to unknown preset destinations. the writing's pretty forward in some ways for the 1970s (pretty diverse set of characters - a japanese amputee, a prospector family from singapore etc.) and not in others (talk of calcutta, the female characters being props for the protagonist)
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Sep 15, 2023 02:56
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I enjoyed the short about the research mind upload being used as a general tool - seems like something that could happen
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Sep 26, 2023 21:04
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On the second book of the latest Ken MacLeod (Lightspeed) trilogy, I'd recommend the series to anyone who felt he kinda dropped off after the Fall Revolution books - interesting premise too
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Nov 6, 2023 06:18
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Halfway through the latest Alastair Reynolds Prefect book, Machine Vendetta - I'm finding it a better read than the second. I still think it's a missed opportunity for him not to paint a more vivid picture of the height of the Glitter Band/Stoner culture - his descriptions of the habitats that are the backdrop are quite muted Man, also looked up the publication date of Revelation Space - 2000. I remember reading it in high school and thinking of this as being cutting edge hard science fiction shrike82 fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Jan 18, 2024 02:05
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yeah finished machine vendetta and lol at that ending (or lack thereof)...
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one thing that alastair reynolds did better than most (hard) SF writers is convey the passage of time in non-FTL societies e.g., belle epoque/post-melding plaque yellowstone ending with the inhibitors blowing up the system
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