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What do you guys think? I've read about a third of these, but it's making me want to pick them all up...
What do you guys think? I've read about a third of these, but it's making me want to pick them all up...
I've read a bunch of P.K. Dick's short stories, but none of his novels. I need to check this out. Thanks for piquing my interest.Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban is pretty great. I liked I Am Legend by Richard Matheson too. But Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep devastated me. Just its scale of loneliness and alienation, absurdity, how unsure everyone must be about everything. It seemed both alien and brutally and beautifully true to life. I still call useless things "kipple."
man, I cannot like that post enough. he's super brilliant, and quite smart for what could loosely be typed as "space opera". (A lot of that sub-genre often focuses on "adventure" as opposed to high concept.) really writes some mind blowing trilogies.In terms of modern sci-if I enjoy Peter f Hamilton. If you give him a try you can skip his first trilogy ( it's ok). Fallen Dragon is an easy and engaging one off, otherwise chronological by publication is the way to go.
So I've read 3 out of your five, the WILL anthology and RPO. I'm at the Barnes and Noble now and I don't see Altered Carbon but they do have Thirteen, any idea how it is?What do you guys think of this list?
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1. Wool (2011) ~ Hugh Howey
Howey is the poster child for self-publishing. Wool started as a short story, but it became massively popular, so he wrote four more parts. Now you can just buy it as a five-part omnibus. Ridley Scott is apparently working on the movie version. (Don't f*#k it up Mr. Scott!) The story is brilliant. The setting is post-apocalyptic, with a few thousand people living in a silo that goes 144 stories into the ground. Then come the secrets, inside and out.
2. Altered Carbon (2002) ~ Richard K. Morgan
This is cyberpunk at its grittiest and most lurid. Morgan does a fantastic job of dishing out just the right amounts of gore, sex, technology and sick twists in a very intelligent detective story with more than a few surprises. You'll feel guilty for enjoying this one so much.
3. The Windup Girl (2009) ~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Technically, this is a dystopian biopunk sci-fi. Awesome. It takes place in Thailand in the 23rd century. Plagues and mutant pests have wreaked havoc on crop yields, so each nation focuses its resources on developing gene-hacked seeds. Enter an economic hitman trying to make a deal and a genetically modified Japanese windup girl just trying to stay alive, and you get a unique glimpse of how bad things can get.
4. Ready Player One (2011) ~ Ernest Cline
Cline is definitely aiming toward a specific reader - those of us who grew up with video games and D&D in the 80s and 90s. It's set in 2044, but the main character's life will hang in the balance of his knowledge of late 20th century pop culture. It's a blast to read, partly because of the pleasure of recognizing all of the obscure references that today's young generation probably won't get.
No idea. In reality, most of what I read is short stories by PK Dick & Robert Howard, or graphic novels. I trane, am learning jazz guitar, & have a busy, active 10 year old.So I've read 3 out of your five, the WILL anthology and RPO. I'm at the Barnes and Noble now and I don't see Altered Carbon but they do have Thirteen, any idea how it is?
Thanks for the TPB reminder. I changed my post, people get touchy about that sometimes, LOL.@soundoff71 : Great choices for graphic novels! I have almost all of the TPBs for Transmetropolitan and the latest one for Saga!
I here there is some kind of creature with a giant set of balls & that it gets a bit rapey. Is that right?You won't be disappointed. It's like an intergalactic Romeo & Juliet story with political intrigue, weird/cool technology and badass bounty hunters!
Maybe...I asked the guys at the comic book shop I go to about my 10 year old reading it, & they told me about the the giant balls. My next question was if it was rapey at all & they were like, "Kind of'.@soundoff71 :
LOL! Not sure about the rapey bit, but that's an affirmative on the giant balls!
There is a weird dynamic with the whole alien trafficking storyline, though. Maybe that's it?
I'll check it out, thanks @SpawnIsGay . The friend who turned me on to Transmetro & Saga also recommended Lazarus.Oh, and read Lazarus and Black Science too, if you get a chance!