Just started Flat Earth by David Williams (someone some of you might know from Kevin's Watch
). I have only started it, but am very pleased with it thus far. The author has a smooth and very intelligent writing style that is really engaging me. 
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| Author: | taraswizard [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:24 am ] |
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Natural History by Justina Robson. Just started it between Friday morning and now. Liking it so far. AIs and ETs, and it might be derivative to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:49 pm ] |
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Just started Flat Earth by David Williams (someone some of you might know from Kevin's Watch ). I have only started it, but am very pleased with it thus far. The author has a smooth and very intelligent writing style that is really engaging me.
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| Author: | Avatar [ Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:02 pm ] |
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A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick. --A |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:38 am ] |
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I have two sections left in Flat Earth. Still very pleased. Each section is a short story, all set in the same universe, with an occasional shared character. I have to reread one called Heaven's Center, which blew my mind. 
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| Author: | Avatar [ Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:40 pm ] |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick. A shortened, schoolkids version, as you've all heard me bemoan.  --A |
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| Author: | Avatar [ Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:50 am ] |
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Heinlein, The Number of the Beast --A |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:03 am ] |
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Rather dark and ugly look at a post-oil world set in Thailand. I think that another Hugo nominee will be next - WWW:Wake by Robert Sawyer. |
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| Author: | Avatar [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:06 pm ] |
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Just finshed The Man In The High Castle by Phillip K Dick. It was well done, but I didn't find the story very gripping. I was more interested in the behind the scenes stuff, that we got so little of. --A |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:02 pm ] |
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Another Hugo nominee in Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson. Has yet to really capture my interest, but know from the past that his books usually take time to grow on me. |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:55 am ] |
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Still struggling through Comstock. While the concepts behind the book are interesting - after oil in less than 200 years the US and Canada are merged (and have conquered their way well down into Latin America) and at constant war with Europe in Labrador (where the Dutch and Germans keep a foothold in North America) , the crazy fundie Christians hold great power, and society has devolved into hereditary aristocratic Landowners, a professional upper servant class, and serfs tied to the land who can be bought and sold like slaves - the book itself is boring me to tears. I am about halfway through it, and am really hoping things pick up.  
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| Author: | Avatar [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:16 pm ] |
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Sheesh, if it hasn't by half-way... --A |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:38 pm ] |
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| Author: | Menolly [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:29 am ] |
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| Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:41 am ] |
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I do not know how far you got into Gardens, Menolly - but things start making a lot more sense and coming together at about page 200, if that was the problem. Menolly - did I mention that there was an important secondary character (positively portrayed) with Asperger's in one of this year's Hugo books? He was in WWW:Wake by Robert Sawyer, if you want to look for it at the library. 
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| Author: | Menolly [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:02 pm ] |
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Yeah. I stopped around page 128 in GotM. And despite all the acclaim of nearly everyone I know (including both Hyperception and Beorn) of the entire series (although neither of them have read the newest one yet), I just have not been able to force myself to pick it up again. My eyes totally glaze over, although I must admit to already having an affinity for Tattersail. I've been trying to return to it ever since Lucimay gave me a copy at 2007 elohimfest. Doesn't look like its gonna happen anytime soon... |
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