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p1doc said:
Matt_N said:
On a Hamilton binge at present, just finished the Abyss beyond Dreams and have just started Night without stars whilst trying to get through the Reality Dysfunction in the background.
he has a new book out-light chaser waiting for it in paperbackp1doc said:
Matt_N said:
On a Hamilton binge at present, just finished the Abyss beyond Dreams and have just started Night without stars whilst trying to get through the Reality Dysfunction in the background.
he has a new book out-light chaser waiting for it in paperbackI picked up the Protectorate series, by Megan O'Keefe (Velocity Weapon and Chaos Vector) earlier this year and wasn't able to put it down, if you like Hamiltons stories, you'll like Velocity Weapon. The third in the series is due out at the end of this month with the paperback of the Saints of Salvation.
captain_cynic said:
Assuming you're referring to the Salvation sequence. Yep, a slow starter and there are entire chapters that are simply worth skipping (Hamilton does seem to have a bit of an obsession with the lifestyles of the rich and famous in his books), but overall a brilliant read that kept getting better.
I picked up the Protectorate series, by Megan O'Keefe (Velocity Weapon and Chaos Vector) earlier this year and wasn't able to put it down, if you like Hamiltons stories, you'll like Velocity Weapon. The third in the series is due out at the end of this month with the paperback of the Saints of Salvation.
I picked up the Protectorate series, by Megan O'Keefe (Velocity Weapon and Chaos Vector) earlier this year and wasn't able to put it down, if you like Hamiltons stories, you'll like Velocity Weapon. The third in the series is due out at the end of this month with the paperback of the Saints of Salvation.
I bigged those two up many pages ago, but hadn't picked up on the release date of the third - cheers.p1doc said:
into alfred bester at the moment demolished man stars are my destination are great fairly short scifi classics
I had a Sci-Fi anthology as a kid, one of those big thick hardback books that you could club baby seals to death with. May have been branded "St Michel" (as in, Marks & Spencers) and amongst the books in it were 2001, The Demolished Man, The Day of the Triffids, and I forget the 4th.The Demolished Man is an excellent book. There's some really good world building in it about how society would be if some people were telepathic and had a duty of care to report people with murderous thoughts to the Police.
Edit: By the power of google.... it was this:
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Friday 18th June 12:34
CheesecakeRunner said:
JonChalk said:
New Adrian Tchaikovsky - Shards of Earth - 1st in a new trilogy.
I got sick of this b
ks in SF years ago. Nobody seems to write stand-alone novels any more. I hate having to wait five years to find out how a story ends. Clockwork Cupcake said:
I had a Sci-Fi anthology as a kid, one of those big thick hardback books that you could club baby seals to death with. May have been branded "St Michel" (as in, Marks & Spencers) and amongst the books in it were 2001, The Demolished Man, The Day of the Triffids, and I forget the 4th.
The Demolished Man is an excellent book. There's some really good world building in it about how society would be if some people were telepathic and had a duty of care to report people with murderous thoughts to the Police.
Edit: By the power of google.... it was this:
i did not have that one as a child but had the 2 sherlock holmes ones i got as a kid-good old Marks and Spencers encouraging reading!The Demolished Man is an excellent book. There's some really good world building in it about how society would be if some people were telepathic and had a duty of care to report people with murderous thoughts to the Police.
Edit: By the power of google.... it was this:
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Friday 18th June 12:34
The kindle book I was reading had the first couple of chapters of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie as a teaser in the end. It seemed interesting so I bought it. Told from the perspective of a distributed AI (ish) and its interesting the way the story mingles what different bodies are doing at the same time, Lots told in flashbacks as well as the main character is linking an incident 20 years earlier with one 1000 years earlier..
Apparently the only novel to have won Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards, but I'd never heard of it
Apparently the only novel to have won Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards, but I'd never heard of it
I will say it was worth getting through the series. Not outstanding (IMO) but certainly interesting enough. There's a lack of initial world building and a plethora of names and she uses gender quite fluidly which all added to make it a bit of a hard-starter (for me) but I was glad I stuck with it
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