I like, just finished fall of hyperion after what I guess was 8 months? I still don' tknow how I felt about it. It seems like those two books could have been half as long and still gotten their point across, kind of. I dunno, I was disappointed in the end. Not sure whether to embark on empyrion, since it took me forever and two attempts to do the hyperion books. maybe I should read something else.
― akm, Friday, 10 January 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
recommend me something.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
book or movie
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
oh book please.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
fantasy okay too.
i have a trip to the lake coming up.
Inverted World. But maybe you already
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Or better yet, The Adjacent
i already inverted. what's the adjacent? same author?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Yes, his latest and greatest
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
oh that looks cool.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Jon Armstrong's "Thread" and "Grey" are my go-to recommendations for recent quality sci-fi.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
maybe obv but the tiptree collectin "her smoke rose up" is unbelievably good
― max, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
the new vandermeer books are great beach reads too though very "written to be turned into a tv show"
oh man and ann leckie's ANCILLARY JUSTICE, which is so good
*takes notes*
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
this plot description is hilarious
For Michael Rivers, life is perfect. He is tall, handsome and worshipped by billions of fans around the globe. He is wealthy beyond measure, the heir apparent to one of the high-tech corporations that controls the world. He is fashionable, setting trends with his wardrobe of immaculate designer suits. And Michael is in love with Nora, his beautiful, witty and equally perfect fiancée. When an assassin's bullets pierce Michael's body before the cameras at a press junket, everything changes. Forcibly separated from Nora, his illusions shattered, Michael seeks to uncover the reasons behind the attempted assassination. Michael delves deep into his past, finding that all paths lead to a time when he was the golden boy, dancing furiously to the beat of notorious all-night Rage parties thrown by his father.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
i finally got around to 'accelerando' too and ended up liking it a lot, or at least the middle third
― max, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
People on this borad loving them some Ancillary Justice. Tempted to give it a try but afraid it will turn out to be some Album of the Decade Big and Rich stuff.
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
this is not sci fi, quite, or maybe it is, but its really great
http://www.amazon.com/The-Revolutions-Felix-Gilman/dp/0765337177
― max, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
ancillary justice on kindle sale for $1.99 so that's tight
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
can't remember if i read accelerando, i did read a bunch of his other stuff
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah idk, im not sure id unreservedly recommend it but its got a lot of cool ideas
― max, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
being able to get sample chapters on kindle owns so hard
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
An oldie I like to push on anyone who hasn't read it is Michael Swanwick - The Iron Dragon's Daughter. Kind of a science-debased fantasy, IDK, fucking amazing.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
I wish I could combine Priest's plots & ideas with Vandermeer's prose. 'The Adjacent' is great though (just so happens I read it sandwiched in between the Southern Reach books).
xp
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
have gilman on my todo list already, he was on sale in the Nook store one day.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
the books are v funny
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
thanks for all the great recs dudes
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
gilman's two half-made world books are also great
― max, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
swanwick owns
Jordan didn't you just the other day recommend some relevant stuff on other thread?
OK, went for the $1.99 AJ
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
aj ends badly but is worth it. i mean idk the last time i read a sci fi book that ended satisfactorily
― max, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
satisfyingly
I read Marcel Theroux's 'Strange Bodies' and 'Far North' recently, one's a cool modern-day body-switching story (kinda, but I don't want to give anything away) and the other is straight post-apocalyptic survival in Siberia. His sentence-level writing is reaally good and he has that rarest of qualities, he's fucking good at endings.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
i p much forgive all writers all their shitty endings forever, it's just the way fiction is most of the time.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
i did
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Max that was a coincidental xpost (re: ending books), but for real though.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Seconding The Iron Dragon's Daughter -- loved that one.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
way upthread, but i'm not sure i agree that vandermeer's new books would be tv-able. also, legal would have to settle with the creators of myst before moving to production.
― moonstone (soda), Monday, 14 July 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
Pick it up, try the Open At Random Test:It was as though he were a beggar or deformed, but in that case they would have at least looked away, which was some sort of recognition. Yes, I think I'll read Disch's Echo Round His Bones. A little more skimming confirms It's one of his early novels (1969), but undoubtedly his.
― dow, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
I can't say that Echo Round His Bones is a good book. It is unlike any other science fiction book I've ever read, and for what it is it is well-written and the prose is solid, but the concept that underlies the whole thing is so random and essentially uninteresting (primarily because it has absolutely no bearing on anything relevant to actual life) that it really feels like a pointless exercise. Every other single thing I've read by him has been way better.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 July 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
if it's an allegory for something it completely passed me by
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett was very good.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 06:09 (nine years ago) link
― moonstone (soda), Monday, July 14, 2014 6:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not easy, but the structure and plot just give off "film rights bidding war" vibe
― max, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 10:49 (nine years ago) link
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
the fact that it was his birthday makes a HUGE difference.
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Because you live in a Francophone town?
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
grabbed the sample of vandermeer's annihilation last night, immediately dug it, bought it and the next one. also have ancillary justice, and samples of two gilmans (revolutions and 1/2-made world) and the adjacent.
also, the two books i'm supposed to be reading for work/research purposes.
i believe i am ready for the lake folks
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh what's the Lake Folks about
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
it's not a book you numskull, i'm talking about the sci-fi-loving naiads who live in our lake and who demand stories from their human visitors
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link