Science Fiction

[Mr E]

Zumbruk said:

Just finished John Scalzi's "Old Man's War". Not great SF (he's no William Gibson), but an easy read, and I enjoyed it enough to order the others in the series.

The emperox series is quite readable.

[captain_cynic]

Mr E said:

Zumbruk said:

Just finished John Scalzi's "Old Man's War". Not great SF (he's no William Gibson), but an easy read, and I enjoyed it enough to order the others in the series.

The emperox series is quite readable.

The ending was quite rushed IMHO but still a great series.

[Mr E]

I’ve just finished the first book of Arkady Martine’s “Teixcalaan“ series (a memory called empire). I thought it was excellent.

[hairykrishna]

JonChalk said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I've just had a notification from Amazon that "Children of Memory" by Adrian Tchaikovsky has been released.

This is a follow-up to Children of Time and Children of Ruin

Currently £9.99 on Kindle. Not sure about other formats.

Hardcover turned up yesterday - Had it on pre-order for months

Treat for this weekend

Me too. Waiting on my kindle for when I get home

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Ok, so I know a lot of us like Adrian Tchaikovsky's work so could I gently ask everyone to respect NO SPOILERS please, because I don't intend to buy it just yet and I don't want to have to stay away from this thread.

I still haven't finished Shards of Earth yet. I just never seem to have time to read these days.

[JonChalk]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Ok, so I know a lot of us like Adrian Tchaikovsky's work so could I gently ask everyone to respect NO SPOILERS please, because I don't intend to buy it just yet and I don't want to have to stay away from this thread.

I still haven't finished Shards of Earth yet. I just never seem to have time to read these days.

Not noticed many on this thread behaving too badly along those lines, but; noted, CC

[Clockwork Cupcake]

JonChalk said:

Not noticed many on this thread behaving too badly along those lines, but; noted, CC

Oh, for sure. It's always been a lovely thread with some awesome people.

Just wanted to gently remind people to stay awesome

[Mr E]

But for the record, the butler did it.

[JonChalk]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

JonChalk said:

Not noticed many on this thread behaving too badly along those lines, but; noted, CC

Oh, for sure. It's always been a lovely thread with some awesome people.

Just wanted to gently remind people to stay awesome

Can't see Hamilton (of the Peter F. variety) vs Reynolds discussions going the same way as the Hamilton (of the Lewis variety) vs Verstappen "discussions" on the F1 threads..........thank God!

[jako1]

Project hail Mary was excellent as others have said.

I think it would struggle as a film like they did with the martian though

[Zumbruk]

JonChalk said:

Can't see Hamilton (of the Peter F. variety) vs Reynolds discussions going the same way as the Hamilton (of the Lewis variety) vs Verstappen "discussions" on the F1 threads..........thank God!

Hamilton(*) isn't fit to sniff the steam from Reynolds ... never mind.

(* FFS learn how to write an ending.)

[captain_cynic]

Zumbruk said:

JonChalk said:

Can't see Hamilton (of the Peter F. variety) vs Reynolds discussions going the same way as the Hamilton (of the Lewis variety) vs Verstappen "discussions" on the F1 threads..........thank God!

Hamilton(*) isn't fit to sniff the steam from Reynolds ... never mind.

(* FFS learn how to write an ending.)

Hamilton's problem is that he takes too long to finish...

Seriously, the man has Lord of the Rings syndrome. The main story wrapped up 50 pages ago and the side characters are still being interviewed on daytime TV.

[Short Grain]

Any one taken advantage of Amazons kindle books for 99p? I've just bought a shed load of box sets from various sci-fi and fantasy writers I've not read before, plus a couple of George RR Martin and Richard Swan on special offer at £3+_
11 box sets plus a couple of singles - £10 all told and about 60 kindle books. It's on 'till 14th Jan from what I can see.

Recently bought Julian Mays Many Coloured Land Trilogy I originally read 30 years ago! Just as good as I remembered!

[hairykrishna]

Just did the Ancillary Justice trilogy and enjoyed all of them very much.

[cherie171]

Finally got around to reading Flowers for Algernon the other day (the novel version, not the original short story). I couldn't put it down and finished not long after midnight. My heart broke for Charlie

I'm just about to start The Last Hero by Linden A Lewis.

[DibblyDobbler]

Short Grain said:

Recently bought Julian Mays Many Coloured Land Trilogy I originally read 30 years ago! Just as good as I remembered!

I hope you read all 4 of them

[havoc]

Was given Project Hail Mary for Christmas, finished it yesterday.

If you want to be picky there are minor technical / plot holes in a number of places (and one deus-ex-machina at the end), but it's sufficiently well thought-through for anyone not being a pedant to enjoy it, and for me it's easily as good as The Martian.

Does rely a little on the classic sci-fi trope of 'new tech' to solve otherwise insurmountable problems, but still very readable.

[Dr Jekyll]

havoc said:

Was given Project Hail Mary for Christmas, finished it yesterday.

If you want to be picky there are minor technical / plot holes in a number of places (and one deus-ex-machina at the end), but it's sufficiently well thought-through for anyone not being a pedant to enjoy it, and for me it's easily as good as The Martian.

Does rely a little on the classic sci-fi trope of 'new tech' to solve otherwise insurmountable problems, but still very readable.

+1

They also learnt to communicate a bit too easily, an irritating but necessary Sci Fi trope.

[Zumbruk]

DibblyDobbler said:

Short Grain said:

Recently bought Julian Mays Many Coloured Land Trilogy I originally read 30 years ago! Just as good as I remembered!

I hope you read all 4 of them

Meh. The Earthsea trilogy is 5 books ...

[DodgyGeezer]

Zumbruk said:

DibblyDobbler said:

Short Grain said:

Recently bought Julian Mays Many Coloured Land Trilogy I originally read 30 years ago! Just as good as I remembered!

I hope you read all 4 of them

Meh. The Earthsea trilogy is 5 books ...

meh a piffling 5 - IIRC Perry Rhodan is at over 200 books...