These are books I read recently and enjoyed:
The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood
Flood Ark Stephen Baxter
House of Suns Terminal World Alistair Reynolds
Climate of Change Piers Anthony
The Secret Eleanor Cecelia Holland
Lion's blood Steven Barnes
Julian Comstock Robert Charles Wilson
On 07/10/2010, at 4:34 AM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
These are books I read recently and enjoyed:
Flood Ark Stephen Baxter
Trash, but fun disaster trash. :-)
The City an the City China Mieville
On the lalpile. Prolly read it next week.
C
Dee wrote
Counting down, just a few weeks til I get a bit more breathing room and hope
to get a new list of good books to read. Start me a list please.
Here again, Dee, are the books I read recently. If you are on Facebook, friend
me, and go to my Info page for an expanded list of books
Re: everyone's book recs..
Excelllent!!! The menu is certainly bigger than my tummy (hopefully
not my reader), but you guys will get me over the hurdles just looking
forward to it.
Last Summer on vacation I uploaded some Hugos and Nebulas I could find
(released asclassics).
PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and
Sundiver are coming to Kindle in late February.
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any
source you like. Why would books be different?
AndrewC
learner
On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 27 Jan 2010 at 15:10, Chris Frandsen wrote:
But how about the iPad???:-)
Kindle app does run on the iPad so in just 60+ days.
Unwaranted assumption. Apple
On 1 Feb 2010 at 1:16, William T Goodall wrote:
On 31 Jan 2010, at 22:06, Chris Frandsen wrote:
And it seems Apple's blockade can be run...
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/google-voice-web-app-circumvents-apples-blockade/
Learner
On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Andrew
and it'll need a new iPad-specific
release to deal with resoloution issues.
AndrewC
learner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising
and it'll need a new iPad-specific
release to deal with resoloution issues.
AndrewC
learner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and
Sundiver
with resoloution issues.
AndrewC
learner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and
Sundiver are coming to Kindle in late February
release to deal with resoloution issues.
AndrewC
learner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and
Sundiver are coming to Kindle
a new iPad-specific
release to deal with resoloution issues.
AndrewC
learner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and
Sundiver
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising and
Sundiver are coming to Kindle in late February.
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But how about the iPad???:-)
Kindle app does run on the iPad so in just 60+ days.
learner
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, John Williams wrote:
The Jijo trilogy is now available on Kindle (as separate books). Also,
Uplift War is available. The publisher says that Startide Rising
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:42 AM, David Brin db...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I have a query in. Alas, it is a department that I have no influence over,
but I will keep trying...
Thanks for checking. I hope someone replies to you! I have heard from
some other authors that it is difficult to get a
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Brin db...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
The Startide Rising release says January 11 2009. I suspectt that's a
misprint and should be January 11, 2010? That'd explain the glitch and
should resolve in a week.
Nope, still no Kindle edition of Startide Rising
Subject: Re: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Brin db...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
The Startide Rising release says January 11 2009. I suspectt that's a
misprint and should be January 11, 2010? That'd explain the glitch and
should resolve in a week.
Nope, still
...@gmail.com
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 10:23:00 PM
Subject: BRIN: Uplift books on Kindle?
I was checking again for the Uplift books on Amazon Kindle, and things
have improved since the last time I looked, but the status is odd.
Uplift War
I was checking again for the Uplift books on Amazon Kindle, and things
have improved since the last time I looked, but the status is odd.
Uplift War is available on Kindle, and Heaven's Reach is available for
pre-order (Jan 13 release).
Oddly, Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore are nowhere
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At 04:38 PM Friday 6/12/2009, Koke wrote:
There are many SF Kindle books available in the $14 - $15 range; these are
usually new books. Look at Greg Bear's The City at the End of Time ($14.85)
or Allen Steeles Coyote Horizon ($14.27).
Or you could have gotten it from the library and read
John Williams wrote:
Any idea why none of Startide Rising or the many sequels are available
in Amazon Kindle format?
I've been curious for some time why so few SF books are available for
Kindle. Only about 1 in 5 of SF books that I would like to purchase
are available for Kindle. The only
Any idea why none of Startide Rising or the many sequels are available
in Amazon Kindle format?
I've been curious for some time why so few SF books are available for
Kindle. Only about 1 in 5 of SF books that I would like to purchase
are available for Kindle. The only explanation I can come up
Subject: BRIN: Startide books on Kindle?
Any idea why none of Startide Rising or the many sequels are available
in Amazon Kindle format?
I've been curious for some time why so few SF books are available for
Kindle. Only about 1 in 5 of SF books that I would like to purchase
are available for Kindle
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:24 AM, David Brindb...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
John, I have the contracts in-hand, as we speak!
Great! Thanks for the quick response. Any idea how long it will be
before Kindle editions are available?
In hand, huh? Kind of ironic that creating a Kindle edition requires
Great! Thanks for the quick response. Any idea how long it will be
before Kindle editions are available?
I have no idea. Hopefully just a matter of months.
Meanwhile folks, remember to drop by http://www.davidbrin.com
and/or my blog http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/
I've been on several
In a message dated 6/11/2009 11:25:26 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
db...@sbcglobal.net writes:
John, I have the contracts in-hand, as we speak!
With cordial regards,
David Brin
_http://www.davidbrin.com_ (http://www.davidbrin.com)
My Kindle reads from both sides.
It makes a pretty
something like Knuth or Sedgewick?
Or further back, like von Neumann?
John--
I guess I'd say like Karp. The books are set in a
universe(?) where P equals NP. Once one has a polynomial-
time algorithm for doing NP-complete problems, Computational
Demonology becomes feasible... : )
He has a few other
Doug said:
About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly
enough, anyway.
Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of
American
history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have the kind of
command of
the facts that you do on what you've studied
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Euan Ritchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of enjoyable SF, the best I've read recently is The Ghost
Brigades by John Scalzi.
I liked Old Mans War (to which it is a sequel) but The Ghost Brigades is
a startlingly good follow up into a differnet league.
I
Doug said:
But you must have read thousands of pages of history!
About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly
enough, anyway.
But the problem is the opportunity cost of reading the Baroque Cycle.
In that number of pages I could get through, for example, the whole
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, John Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot
version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if
it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards.
For someone
John Williams wrote:
Max Battcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex
with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...
Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
have to check it out now.
Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I liked it:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/09/anathem_by_neal.shtml
Interesting review. I must admit this comparison would have never occurred to
me:
In fact, with its longeurs and constant debate, it occasionally resembles an
unholy hybrid of
John Williams wrote:
Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed
for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left
to have sex with...
Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
have to check it out now.
Since I didn't read it, I don't
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
John Williams wrote:
Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed
for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left
to have sex with...
Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
have to check it out now.
Since I
Rich wrote:
Doug said:
But you must have read thousands of pages of history!
About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly
enough, anyway.
Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of American
history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have the
:
John--
That's funny, you seem to like to talk about that
kind of thing in other threads.
Not really. What I would like to talk about is new SF books.
Have you read Anathema?
Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with
that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title.
I've read
David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with
that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title.
I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long
for the content.
I skipped Crypto, I imagine I would have had the same
impression as you
John Williams wrote:
David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with
that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title.
I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long
for the content.
I skipped Crypto, I imagine I would have had the same
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, John Williams wrote:
Anathem (I mistyped an -a before) is about 900 pages, but
after the first 80 pages or so the action picks up and it
did not drag at all for me. I'd say it is somewhere in
between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle books as far as
balance between
David said:
My favorites of his are the ones that start with
The Atrocity Archives. Not everyone would come
up with Lovecraftian computer science.
I must read more Stross. At the moment all I've read was A Colder
War, which I thought was great (and which is available for free
online).
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anathem (I mistyped an -a before) is about 900 pages, but
after the first 80 pages or so the action picks up and it
did not drag at all for me. I'd say it is somewhere in
between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle books
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Martin Lewis wrote:
Basically if you like Cryptonomicom plus Snow Crash you will like Anathem.
OK, good to know -- I have something to really look forward to next week,
then! :)
Thank you very much, Martin.
Julia
Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot
version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if
it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards.
For someone who has read Anathem but not Cryptonomicon,
David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Probably from the cover? : )
Partly, and the blurb I read focused on the android sex
element.
Yes, I recommend it. Stross
may not have the most polished writing, but the
rest of his books are amazing.
Okay, I've added it to my list. I'm not sure if I
is available for free
online).
Rich--
I like all of his books, and recommend them highly. None
are perfect, but all have some brilliant parts. I'd say
that the best overall in terms of plot, imagery, humor and
writing is Glasshouse. By the way, there's also a short
story in the Atrocity Archives
it. Stross
may not have the most polished writing, but the
rest of his books are amazing.
Okay, I've added it to my list. I'm not sure if I will
get it before The Temporal Void which should be
coming in a couple weeks.
Would that be Hamilton's _The Dreaming Void_?
I've read it, but probably should
all of his books, and recommend them highly. None
are perfect, but all have some brilliant parts. I'd say
that the best overall in terms of plot, imagery, humor and
writing is Glasshouse. By the way, there's also a short
story in the Atrocity Archives sequence that's free online:
http
David wrote:
How about Saturn's Children?
I just bought a buttload of books from SFBC, and that was among them. If
people are interested in talking about it,
I could move it up in the queue. I'm in the middle of re-reading _Watchmen_,
which has held up very well over
the past ~25 years.
Jim
David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have
android sex.
Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she
have sex with a human? :-)
Would that be Hamilton's _The Dreaming Void_?
No, The Temporal Void, the sequel to Dreaming.
amazon.co.uk should be
Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have
android sex.
Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she
have sex with a human? :-)
Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex
with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...
It could
Max Battcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex
with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...
Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
have to check it out now.
Richard
Rich, who has some enthusiasm for reading the Baroque Cycle, but that
enthusiasm is outweighed by being intimidated by the sheer number of
pages.
But you must have read thousands of pages of history! The Baroque Cycle
seems to be very well researched, and its recreations of 18th
in the middle of several others
including Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, Baxter's Manifold: Time
and McCollough's Adams bio.
All the Pretty Horses which is the first book of a trilogy is a bit of a
departure from the other two McCarthy books I've read (Blood Meridian and
The Road
Ronn said:
*BTW, I haven't heard anything from them in awhile . . . unlike a few
years ago when that was a quite active list . . .
147 emails so far this month and around three thousand so far this
year on the Culture List seems to be at least roughly comparable to
Brin-L's 330 this month
On 13/09/2008, at 7:11 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
I did! I did!!
Unfortunately when I asked several months ago on this list and the
Culture list* I seemed to be rather unique in being able to make
that claim.
Took a while to arrive was the problem. I liked it. Not his best, but
a
On 13/09/2008, at 3:37 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Of the culture books, Matter was probably my least favorite. Many
consider
A Player of Games the best, but I prefer Consider Phlebus. If you
like
action, CP's the ticket.
CP is great. My favourite is PoG, but I think Excession's
Charlie wrote:
CP is great. My favourite is PoG, but I think Excession's probably the
best. Use of Weapons is regarded as the best by many, but I don't
think it stands up to a re-read as well as E, CP or PoG. Inversions I
liked a lot better on my recent pre-Matter re-read of the whole lot
Although you wouldn't know it from my posts,
I actually wanted to discuss science fiction when
I joined this list (I got a bit sidetracked, obviously).
No one wanted to discuss Greg Bear's latest book.
I just started Neal Stephenson's new book, Anathem.
I'm having a little trouble getting
Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have list of some of my favorite novels I can e-mail you if interested...
Thanks for the offer. I am usually only interested in discussing recent
SF novels while I am reading them or while they are still fresh in my
mind after I recently read them.
Any
I have list of some of my favorite novels I can e-mail
you if interested...
Thanks for the offer. I am usually only interested in
discussing recent
SF novels while I am reading them or while they are still
fresh in my
mind after I recently read them.
Any recent SF novels on your list?
the Pretty Horses, Baxter's Manifold: Time
and McCollough's Adams bio.
All the Pretty Horses which is the first book of a trilogy is a bit of a
departure from the other two McCarthy books I've read (Blood Meridian and
The Road) in that it isn't nearly as bleak and violent. There's even a bit
did
not seem worth the trouble. I think the only recent Banks book I liked was
The Algebraist, lots of action, a nice mystery, and a great ending.
I tried to pick up Anathem the other day but the bookstore I frequent was
out already
I hope Anathem turns out to be better than the Baroque books
recent Banks book I liked was
The Algebraist, lots of action, a nice mystery, and a great ending.
Of the culture books, Matter was probably my least favorite. Many consider
A Player of Games the best, but I prefer Consider Phlebus. If you like
action, CP's the ticket.
I tried to pick up Anathem
http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com/sale.html
They have some Moorcock and Rucker, among others. And if you order one of
the books relating to Robert E. Howard's writings, you're supporting
people I personally know and care about. :)
Julia
Just finished this for a book club - rather dry going,
but informative. Depressing, actually, but Frank's
analysis of why folks are voting for politicians and
policy which hurt them economically seemed valid to
me. Of course, I think others wrote/reported similar
things before, but the account
Living in a fantasy world - you say that like it's a bad thing.
From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: RE: Books
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:48:40 -0500
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson
(Does anyone have anything to say about _Freakanomics_, which
my mom thought my husband would like for his birthday?)
My wife enjoyed it. She said I shold read it. Dunno much else
about it though.
- jmh
On the recommendation of someone on this list (Bob Z., but he might not
have been the only one to suggest it), I put _A History of the Jews_ on
my amazon.com wishlist.
My brother-in-law thought it would make a good birthday present for me,
so now I have it.
Of course, the book about
on another list from Lori
Lake, a prolific and popular author of Lesbian-themed detective novels.
Begin forwarded message:
Banning Gay Books
By Mubarak Dahir, AlterNet. Posted September 28, 2005.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/26133/
Books with gay themes are increasingly banned in schools
The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the
unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :)
There are now 22 active users (who have rated books). There are
another ten users with accounts who have not rated any books.
There are 819 books in the database of which
On 4 Jul 2005, at 4:08 am, Bryon Daly wrote:
I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books
(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here
read them and what they thought of them.
I haven't read them, but Time, Space and Origin have all been rated
From: Kevin Street [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kevin Street wrote:
Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the
best writers have names that start with B?)
Pat Mathews wrote:
For the same reason so many great 19th Century composers did?
19th Century composers had
Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best
writers have names that start with B?)
Bryon Daly wrote:
I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books
(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here
read them and what they thought
From: Kevin Street [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: RE: Baxter's Manifold: books
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:35:47 -0600
Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best
writers
Bryon Daly wrote:
I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books
(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here
read them and what they thought of them.
For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably
won't bother with Manifold: Origin
Bryon wrote-
I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books
(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here
read them and what they thought of them.
For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably
won't bother with Manifold: Origin
On 4 Jul 2005, at 6:33 am, Max Battcher wrote:
How many people know what NASA is doing right now?
Spending a lot of money badly?
How many people know what the latest Brad Pitt relationship is?
Angelina Jolie!
--
William T Goodall
Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web :
I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books
(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here
read them and what they thought of them.
For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably
won't bother with Manifold: Origin. Fortunately, I can
In a message dated 7/3/2005 8:09:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alien artifact on a near-earth asteroid?
Yawn.
Part of the plot to The Reluctant Tytlal Expert, which I hope our good Dr.
Brin finally gets to reading as he wends his way to Seattle in July.
The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the
unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :)
This year's Hugo nominated novels have been added to the database.
There are 811 books in the database and 1948 book ratings so far. The
site has been updated so
The ongoing project for brin-l listees to rate books based on the
unproved notion that we might have similar tastes :)
There are 803 books in the database and 1915 book ratings so far. The
site has been updated so as to not require cookies to work. This should
make things a bit easier for some
And our favourite Brin books are:
Startide Rising 1
The Uplift War 2
Foundation's Triumph3
Earth 4
Otherness 5
Kiln People 6
Heart of the Comet 7
Glory Season8
Brightness Reef 9
The River of Time 9
The Postman 10
--
William T Goodall
Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=articlearticleid=22182
Fifteen minutes of the video is just grainy footage of a moronic
debate they taped off MSNBC. In it, a bookstore buyer and a Southern
man argue over whether children should be allowed to read Harry Potter
books. Its brought
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=articlearticleid=22182
The entire article is worthy of reading...
I've played Dungeons Dragons for slightly over 20
years. I have never had the urge to drink unicorn
blood, thankfully. Though there was that one time
where I was a captive of an
On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=articlearticleid=22182
How stupid do people think kids are? (Rhetorical question: I know for
a fact that the answer is 7).
Like many generations of parents before me, I have read various folk
and
On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
I've played Dungeons Dragons for slightly over 20
years. I have never had the urge to drink unicorn
blood, thankfully.
That's because you don't drink it, silly:
Unicorn Blood Pudding
1 qt. Unicorn's blood
3/4 lb. bread crumbs,
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:03:54 -0700 (PDT), Damon Agretto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=articlearticleid=22182
The entire article is worthy of reading...
Hey - the article's by Seanbaby! He's got a pretty funny (and very
non-PC) website. My favorite
From the MIT Technology review of 8/10/04 (I just get
the blurbs, not the full articles):
Justice To Libraries: Please Destroy Some Books For Us
The Department of Justice has asked the Government
Printing Office to instruct federal depository
libraries around the country to destroy five
Brin-l-books was offline for a couple of hours today since I was
upgrading PHP from version 4.1.2 to 4.3.4. I did it on the production
server because I am a bare-knuckle scary kind of individual :)
Needless to say everything broke but after a little firefighting and a
few bottles of Carlsberg
books are completely new. As for the
Catholic Church being an Evil Empire, that's somewhat more true but
also a little misleading. One of the core characters, Father-Captain
Federico de Soya is an extremely well drawn character and certainly not
Evil. And the whole plot is a detailed examination
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Perdido Street Station is a Fantasy dressed up in Science Fiction
Drag.
-
PSS was a very, very hard book to read. I wrote a review that said
something to the effect that I hadn't had to wade
David Hobby wrote:
I honestly don't know. I've heard about it, and have no desire
to read it. It could be that I'm put off by the classical
allusions, present even in the titles. Heavy-handed references
to THE CLASSICS usually signal a pompous and self-important
author. Not that I'm
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
I hate to do a me too - but, me too. The whole
Hyperion series taken together ranks among the finest
works of science fiction I have ever read - offhand, I
can't think of _anything_ I would put ahead of it, and
only a handful of other books that are even close
George said:
Concur, great series. Simmons can write.
The first two are excellent, even if parts of _The Fall of Hyperion_ are
a mess and the ending isn't as clean as it should be. I was much less
impressed by the two Endymion books though.
Rich
On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:48 +0100, William T Goodall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://books.scattersoft.com
So this is the SF top ten...
Hyperion, Dan Simmons 1
Foundation, Isaac Asimov =2
Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov =2
Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
On 2 Jun 2004, at 11:42 am, Gary Denton wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:48 +0100, William T Goodall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://books.scattersoft.com
So this is the SF top ten...
Hmmm, am I registered for this as well?
Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go
to
William said:
Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go
to http://books.scattersoft.com , click the 'registration' link and
follow the instructions.
When I try this it says Something or other mysteriously failed. Try
again later. int(999).
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Thanks to Erik raving about how good Hyperion is a few months ago, I
finally read it after looking at the cover and *not* buying it for 20
years or so.
Gawrsh its great. I ended up reading all four books one after the
other and will read them again at some point
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