I never knew. It's gorgeous. Always thought of it as a designation - never considered the physical form of the award. Wow.Originally Posted by Donjonson
I never knew. It's gorgeous. Always thought of it as a designation - never considered the physical form of the award. Wow.
I want one. I'd better start writing.
Why A Study in Scarlet when you can have A Study in Emerald?
Are we talking 'the catastrophe of bioengineering' like 'ME AM PLAY GOD' cautionary morality tale? If so... no thanks. Sci-fi that makes technology the villain is something I couldn't be less interested in.
No, technology is not the villain, there is no definite morality throughout the book. Here's the review that made me interested, the very first sentence of which might placate you :)
http://io9.com/5355830/gmo-espionage...=thewindupgirl
"Science fiction about the environment can get preachy, so Paolo Bacigalupi's hard SF novel The Windup Girl is a welcome change. Set in Thailand's future, the book follows scientist spies hunting good genomes in a world ruined by GMO diseases"
Alright, consider me placated. I'm on an SF binge at the moment and that sounds like just the thing - I'd seen it in the shops a few times before but had other things in the queue ahead of it. Thanks for the recommendation :)
No problem! It was recommended to me by a friend, and I think a few people might be reading this copy after me :)
Have you read Singularity Sky?
Right now I'm reading "DNS & BIND - Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz".
I'm out of books to read for entertainment, bleah. Gonna get that Windup Girl, maybe.
A set of books I'd highly recommend to you is the Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove, starting with The Middle Kingdom. They are quite excellent.
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Oh yes, I'm a big Charlie Stross fan. In fact after I finished Terminal World I moved straight on to the Fuller Memorandum, which I finished in the wee small hours of this morning. Good stuff as ever. Next up: Mr Banks' Surface Detail.
Yes, I went on a book buying splurge on Friday. I've also got World War Z and Tony Ballantyne's Capacity waiting in the wings - I'm sure I've read something of his before, but I'm buggered if I can remember what it was...
I just started reading A Clash of Kings and oh help I have a maths exam tomorrow I need to revise but the book it calls it hungers it must be read help meeeeeeeeeee
Just finished Alastair Reynolds' Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days. Reynolds is a very, very good writer. Sure, neither of those stories were of the epic proportions I've gotten used to associate with Reynolds' work, but they were still very enjoyable regardless.
Next up is either Reynolds' Absolution Gap or Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup girl.
As far as the Ender's Game sequels go, Ender's Shadow is quite nice, prehaps better than Ender's Game. The characters just feel a lot more believable. Haven't read any of the other sequels, though, but I hear they're not that good.
@serenegoose, @Donjonson
This is where I make the obligatory plug for John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, the best sci fi and also sort of about societal/environmental collapse. Reading it is obligatory. Then reading The Sheep Look Up is obligatory.
If we're talking classics, I'd recommend John Brunner's Shockwave Rider :)
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Just finished A Clash Of Kings, hmm not as strong narritvily as A Game of thrones i think(a lot of it does seem to be set up) but it does have a nice pace and Tyrion seems to be the main focus which is a good thing because he is a really good chaarcter. Not sure where this is going to be honest which compounds the narritive issue but is quite nice feeling to be honest. Nothing goes quite like you expect. But this isn't a good book to do what i'm doing and wait a year before buying the third book since I do feel it is set up.
Picked up The Windup Girl today - was going to grab A Game of Thrones but I'm fickle enough to abstain based on the fact the only copies in the store had rubbish covers. I'll wait til the good covers are back first.
Homicide by David Simon.
I just happened to spot this in a bookshop the other day, and I recognised the author's name as being the creator of The Wire, which is basically my favourite TV show ever.
It's fascinating so far.
Well after about 50 pages stuff looks like it might finally be about to happen in Black House. Which is good, because I was going to give it another 50 before ditching it.
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.
I've jumped on the Windup Girl bandwagon, though I'm rather underwhelmed so far. If it doesn't improve soon I'm going to switch. Maybe to some Lovecraft, since the Mrs is always trying to get me to read some.
Contrarily, I also started it today and am hooked by 60 pages in. Funny how subjective tastes go.
I'm re-reading Halting State by Charles Stross.
For some reason the EVE crisis reminded me of it. I guess because it was another example of how virtual world events can result in RL consequences.
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