Any favorites? At these digital times people can really narrow their interest to certain niches, if they want. Applies for games as well as books. I mostly read only historical novels and hard-core near-future scifi.
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Any favorites? At these digital times people can really narrow their interest to certain niches, if they want. Applies for games as well as books. I mostly read only historical novels and hard-core near-future scifi.
How do you define that? Examples?
EDIT: Asking because I'm a fellow fan looking for recommendations.
You know, it's like near future sci fi... but HARDCORE! EVERYBODY IS AN ACTION HERO! 'Xplosions everywhere With constant AC/DC in the background. At-least what I imagine when I read that.
Hardcore science fiction (or hard science fiction)= Follows as closely as possible the known science and physical laws. "Science fiction in which the technology or science portrayed in the story has been extrapolated from current scientific theories, especially in which the laws of nature (as understood at the time of writing) are not violated."
Near-Future = For me: anything that doesn't go thousands of years into future. The closer to the present, the better.
Examples:
Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy (Red mars, green mars, blue mars) . This is my alltime favorite reading. Tells of the colonization of Mars.
Brin, Benford: Heart of the Comet
John Lumpkin: Through struggle, the stars (The Human Reach -trilogy)
Just to name a few favorites
Near-Future = For me: anything that doesn't go thousands of years into future. The closer to the present, the better.
Examples:
Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy (Red mars, green mars, blue mars) . This is my alltime favorite reading. Tells of the colonization of Mars.
Brin, Benford: Heart of the Comet
John Lumpkin: Through struggle, the stars (The Human Reach -trilogy)
Just to name a few favorites
That's what I hoped you'd say. I'm just finishing Blue Mars and man that trilogy is awesome, and that while being scientifically fully credible! I'll check out the others.
Yeah, I've read it three times already. Bad news is that there is no better book/series in the genre (that I know of)
Pulled pork is delicious, I had it for dinner last night. And tank slippers are pretty cool.
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I like dark and preferably wacky or fucked up. Real physical laws are overrated. I did like Red Mars though.
Here is a list of favorites, in no particular order:
- Everything by Alastair Reynolds, Chasm City in particular (revelation space was kinda shit I guess but required for the rest of his books)
- The Forever War
- A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
- The gap cycle books by Donaldson
- Use of Weapons, by Banks (reading this atm)
- Enders game + sequels (not as keen on the new ones with Bean and buddies. also yes movie was good)
- Time Enough for Love by Heinlein (probably my favorite by him)
- The Stars My Destination by Bester
- Pandora's Star by Hamilton
- Hyperion by Simmons
- I sometimes read Honor Harrington books. Literally, and especially character wise, they are a bit shit but the military aspects are good and they contain 6-legged telepathic cats.
200 other books I currently forgot
non-sci-fi wise my all time favourite books are the Dark Tower books by Stephen king. actually they can probably be classified as sci-fi as well, they do have cyborg bears.
I like alt-history books in the sort of "Forest Gump" tradition. Cryptonomicon by stephenson about ww2 crypto warfare and also his Baroque Cycle about 17th century money and science.
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I knew something had to be up with pulled pork when it started appearing on the menu at places catering to other than bikers or rednecks.
Did you manage to get past the ending of the Dark Tower series without cringing though?
I loved that series right til then...
I loved that series right til then...
Custer or Neil? I like it, more information is good (if Neil, well PDS should definitely do a 4x space game).
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sadly not
I loved the ending, it felt very appropriate for Roland and how the world worked. In fact I'm not sure any other ending would have made sense. The only negative of the last book was that I kinda felt that Mordred should have had a bigger role though for the amount of pages dedicated to him
sadly not
Oh. Have a look at Noctis IV (2003). It's a first person space exploration game where you play a cat flying through a galaxy in a rectangle of polarised quartz. It's immense.
Have you noticed how popular podcat is, compared to most other devs?
Everyone loves cats.
(except for bad people)
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Have you noticed how popular podcat is, compared to most other devs?
Not too wierd considering my amazing posting and humble personality
Have you noticed how popular podcat is, compared to most other devs?
Yeah, i did. I like him very much too.
I think of him always as some kind of less weird "Groogy"