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YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited December 2011
Has anyone read Reamde?

I love Diamond Age and Snow Crash so much but I fucking hate all other N.S. books I've ever attempted. So why am I tempted by this book? Also what's Anathem like?

Ok discuss

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  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Also open to recommendations in the sci-fi category I think of as:
    "Diamond Age-style Stephenson / Embassytown-style Miéville / No Phillip K. Dick Please / Keep The Technobabble to a Minimum"

  • DeathDeath
    edited December 2011
    After a period of having my fill of mystical cats and prostitutes, I just started reading that new thousand page Haruki Murakami book and I'm enjoying it so far. He used to be my favorite no challenge read until I read Harry Potter. Brains are already starting to collapse into alternate dimensions. I guess he is not technically sci-fi, but he might as well be.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited December 2011
    No but I just finished the last Song of Ice and Fire book

    Fave quote:
    "*unt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was to only part of a woman they valued."

    GEORGE RR I LOVE YA
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Do you know about the genre of GoT fan raps on youtube?



  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread


  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    YT

    I've read + liked them both. Anathem and Reamde are polar opposites, Anathem all taut philosophical completely alternate world, Reamde sprawling thriller style, like almost a Clive Cussler book or something? A lot of talk about time + society in the former, a lot of talk about guns + goldfarming in the latter. Reamde is good for a multitude of vivid, diverse characters, which I've always particularly liked about his books (Zula is a kickass if not entirely believable heroine). I guess it depends on what aspect you like better of his work?

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    good stuff guys, keep 'em coming!

    Good info on the NS books Ed, they both sound good to me!!

    I'm all caught up on Song of Ice and Fire unfortunately or you know I'd be reading those instead of talking about any other book

  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    STONE JUNCTION.
    http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Junction-Jim-Dodge/dp/0802135854
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    Have you read Cryptonomicon by NS? That's also more of a traditional thriller with WWII and modern plotlines.
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    And though it's not really sci-fi anymore, William Gibson's recent books have been really good (I'm thinking Pattern Recognition and its sequels).
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    I LOVED Pattern Recognition and Zero History, Gibson's books before that weren't doing it for me at all, but those were KILLER. Also Bruce Sterling has some great books, especially Islands In The Net, Holy Fire, and Stormy Weather. You may also enjoy The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell, about a Jesuit who goes into space to meet aliens. Market Forces by Richard Morgan and Jennifer Government by Max Berry. Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson is set in neo Toronto, that's a good one. Octavia Butler is CLASSIC AND REQUIRED. Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion/Endymion/Rise of Endymion, by Dan Simmons. DAN SIMMONS! Also his books Iliium + Olympos are great (and right up yr alley YT).

    Thus concludes Section B.4 of Ed Chigliak's Random SF Recos.

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I can't get into Octavia Butler! Help me! So many people have recommended her, and conceptually I am so into her, but whenever I try to read her I get so bored and annoyed! What is the very best of her books, I will go try to read it again.

    I totally read The Sparrow and am still haunted by it. THE HANDS THING!!!!!

    have never read Bruce Sterling but also have had him recommended a bunch. Maybe the time has come.

    These are such good suggestions! I am going to dig in. I may also read The Pale King finally, first, but still.
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