Science Fiction Reading in January 2018

Hobbit

Hobbit

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Happy New Year!

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Hopefully after all those Christmas book presents, here's where you tell us about what you've been reading in Science Fiction this month. Good or bad, we want to know what you think.

Mark
 
Finished rereading Al Reynolds' Aurora Rising/The Prefect and now straight on to Elysium Fire. It's very rare these days that I read books from the same series back to back, but so far, it's great.
 
Hobbit said:
Happy New Year!
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You too, Mark :)
I received Nova Swing by M John Harrison & Death's End by Liu Cixin for Christmas, and I'm starting the new year with the latter - been looking forward to this one since finishing The Dark Forest in 2016!
 
I started a second SF read for January: The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. So far, so good.
 
Been reading a couple of Algis Budrys' short stories (Riya's Foundling -- Science Fiction Stories 1953; Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night -- Galaxy 1961, Citadel -- Astounding 1955). Good stuff, especially Citadel.
All available via Project Gutenberg.
 
Av Demeisen said:
Also, according to the Lipson-Chiu Corporate Test, I am an ICIE.

Through Charles Stross' Twitter account: https://twitter.com/cstross/status/948181582938075136
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Hmmm...I also emerged as an ICIE / a.k.a. torturer...even after i changed some of my answers on seeing the result (sadly enough I did that not because of the score being what it was, but not wanting to have the same score as someone else :rolleyes:) Av, you know any large software companies we can target for a hostile take-over?
 
Sfinx said:
Hmmm...I also emerged as an ICIE / a.k.a. torturer...even after i changed some of my answers on seeing the result (sadly enough I did that not because of the score being what it was, but not wanting to have the same score as someone else :rolleyes:) Av, you know any large software companies we can target for a hostile take-over?
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I have zero capital to invest. We'll have to create a startup, and then I'll muscle you out, making you destitute and suicidal in the process, while loosing zero sleep over this.
 
Just started War Factory by Neal Asher. Been a while since I read Dark Intelligence so I'm re-familiarizing with the characters.

Charlie
 
Av Demeisen said:
I have zero capital to invest. We'll have to create a startup, and then I'll muscle you out, making you destitute and suicidal in the process, while loosing zero sleep over this.
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No worries, I have some highly trustworthy friends at Goldman Sachs, who'll make sure all parties benefit equally - and can also assist you in re-mortgaging your house in order to raise initial capital. You'll be paid of course in due term (in a still to be invented but no doubt highly successful new crypto-currency). Don't you worry Av, you're gonna be rich man! Trust me.
 
Sfinx said:
No worries, I have some highly trustworthy friends at Goldman Sachs, who'll make sure all parties benefit equally - and can also assist you in re-mortgaging your house in order to raise initial capital. You'll be paid of course in due term (in a still to be invented but no doubt highly successful new crypto-currency). Don't you worry Av, you're gonna be rich man! Trust me.
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I finished Infinite by Jeremy Robinson - A tech-scientist wakes up from cryo-sleep to find most of his crew-members dead and the ship hurtling to the end of the Universe.

Definitely a very readable book - each chapter ends on some sort of cliff-hanger to make the reader want to start the next. It also deals with some interesting issues - AI's and what makes them conscious beings, immortality, what is past the edge of the Universe, the future of the planet - but also in a quick way that moves on the next, often with questionable science behind it.

The big problem I had was the "reveal" towards the end -
a big part of Williams trip with Capria was all a simulation! It's almost as bad as "it was all a dream"!
- which was disappointing.

Overall readable with some interesting parts, but ultimately forgettable.
 
Westsiyeed said:
I finished Infinite by Jeremy Robinson - A tech-scientist wakes up from cryo-sleep to find most of his crew-members dead and the ship hurtling to the end of the Universe.

Definitely a very readable book - each chapter ends on some sort of cliff-hanger to make the reader want to start the next. It also deals with some interesting issues - AI's and what makes them conscious beings, immortality, what is past the edge of the Universe, the future of the planet - but also in a quick way that moves on the next, often with questionable science behind it.

The big problem I had was the "reveal" towards the end -
a big part of Williams trip with Capria was all a simulation! It's almost as bad as "it was all a dream"!
- which was disappointing.

Overall readable with some interesting parts, but ultimately forgettable.
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That's lame!
If only that reveal had been accompanied by a notice your credit card had only been charged in a simulation as well.
 
Westsiyeed said:
The big problem I had was the "reveal" towards the end -
a big part of Williams trip with Capria was all a simulation! It's almost as bad as "it was all a dream"!
- which was disappointing.
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That's actually my own theory about
how we'll travel to distant parts of the universe - through highly accurate simulation, almost indistinguishable from reality. Don't tell me someone's put it in a book already! :D
 
Quarter through Death's End. What a book!! The first section is set in more-or-less present day and has some of the best scientific puzzle solving to a problem I've read in a long while. It's also pretty funny too, in a way.
 
Ropie said:
That's actually my own theory about
how we'll travel to distant parts of the universe - through highly accurate simulation, almost indistinguishable from reality. Don't tell me someone's put it in a book already! :D
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Pretty much!
 
Ropie said:
Quarter through Death's End. What a book!! The first section is set in more-or-less present day and has some of the best scientific puzzle solving to a problem I've read in a long while. It's also pretty funny too, in a way.
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And the best is yet to come! One of my favorite SF novels EVER
 
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