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@Barbarius great suggestions! I read them many years ago as a teenager and I may run out of puff after three. Dune Messiah reads differently now, with some more adult appreciation but also in the post-9/11 era as well.
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the fan-favorite cozy space opera …
Peer pressure from November Kelly
@pelagikat There are many, many characters with a narrative perspective. Most of them are quite alienating though - and it's a loooong book! To be honest I'm not sure if I'm glad I finished it.
@pelagikat There are many, many characters with a narrative perspective. Most of them are quite alienating though - and it's a loooong book! To be honest I'm not sure if I'm glad I finished it.
I was quite intrigued to revisit the Revelation Space universe. This rambling, largely pointless story felt tired. The characterisation was thin throughout. The ending was disappointing for its lack of resolution. A real shame.
I was quite intrigued to revisit the Revelation Space universe. This rambling, largely pointless story felt tired. The characterisation was thin throughout. The ending was disappointing for its lack of resolution. A real shame.
Interesting to revisit this setting after so many years. I wonder what an older, more jaded version of me will make of it.
A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed …
I continued on to this after reading Blindsight, because even though I didn't love it I had some enduring questions. An error on my part. There were more deliberate ambiguities than plot points in this book.
I won't provide a plot précis. This has some compelling concepts and big ideas, but was frankly a mess. Characters' motivations remain inexplicable even at the end of the book.
Amusingly this AMA with the author seems to boil down to "you're reading it wrong". Authors, please get over yourselves.
I continued on to this after reading Blindsight, because even though I didn't love it I had some enduring questions. An error on my part. There were more deliberate ambiguities than plot points in this book.
I won't provide a plot précis. This has some compelling concepts and big ideas, but was frankly a mess. Characters' motivations remain inexplicable even at the end of the book.
Amusingly this AMA with the author seems to boil down to "you're reading it wrong". Authors, please get over yourselves.
@koosli I stopped this halfway through, probably due to the unevenness you allude to. I should finish it though! Some interesting short works in there.
This deepened my appreciation of Woody and my understanding of his life and work. The inclusion of handwritten work, photos and ephemera was beautiful and makes the reader feel connected to him as a person in a way that sterile words on a page can't.
This deepened my appreciation of Woody and my understanding of his life and work. The inclusion of handwritten work, photos and ephemera was beautiful and makes the reader feel connected to him as a person in a way that sterile words on a page can't.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor …
The ideas are compelling, and the inclusion of recreated vampires is a weird but interesting diversion. There's no emotional core though. In some ways that's by design - the primary narrative POV is of someone who's had significant, personality-destroying psychosurgery. I found myself asking why should I care about any of this throughout.
The ideas are compelling, and the inclusion of recreated vampires is a weird but interesting diversion. There's no emotional core though. In some ways that's by design - the primary narrative POV is of someone who's had significant, personality-destroying psychosurgery. I found myself asking why should I care about any of this throughout.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won …
An important collection of Dredd stories, encompassing aspects of Origins.
