Dave - > Interesting / recommended: > > Movie — Mortal Engines. "We have to destroy London" London traveling > around the globe destroying all other mobile cities.
Thanks... I have read the book and seen the movie. I've been a fan of Steam Punk since Gibson/Sterling coined the genre with "The Difference Engine", even though *most of it* is pretty weak, more like fan-fiction than anything else. I suppose that Mortal Engines is closer to Diesel Punk which I also (can) enjoy. The image of city-scale vehicles (with city styling, presumably pulled up by the roots and made mobile by giant traction engines) with what felt like collective personalities (from their residents, weighted by the powerful of course) with their own agency (at least a hunger to consume other cities for their fuel? and materials and citizenry?). I'm a sucker for a good Post Apocalyptic and they have become wildly more clever over the decades. Though going back to Canticle for Leibowitz and Wells' work is good too. > > Book — SEVENEVES by Neal Stephenson. Black hole destroys moon, three > arcologies (one a space station, one undersea, and one in Alaskan > mine, survive but ethnic strife among the seven "races" (each the > descendants of one of the Eves) survives as well. I'm a big fan of Stephenson, starting with Zodiac and peaking with Snowcrash and Diamond Age. Diamond Age was an epic in it's own right and virtually everything he has written since has been an Epic squared. I did read Seveneves and enjoyed it as much as I have most/all of his other Epic^2 works. I'm stuck halfway through "Fall; Dodge in Hell" which as you must know is somewhat focused on a dystopian (utopian for some) post-upload/AI future. - Steve
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