Seveneves was good; the criticisms of it are the same as that review of Termination Shock: he goes into a 400-page explanatory jag that the reviewers don't like but that is the meat of the story for me. When it all comes to the exciting end, I'm usually, "oh, sure, got it."
His book, REAMDE, was super interesting to me, until the last two chapters when it was just wrapped up with a bow and ended.
Anathem and Cryptonomicon are his high water marks, IMO, but Diamond Age and Snow Crash are the ones that the sci-fi nerds still get excited about.
I understand the criticism, but yeah, that's the stuff that kept me reading.
I'll check out the others - cheers!
Cool - and speaking of Sevens, I read Stephenson's SevenEves a while back and really enjoyed it.
Seveneves was good; the criticisms of it are the same as that review of Termination Shock: he goes into a 400-page explanatory jag that the reviewers don't like but that is the meat of the story for me. When it all comes to the exciting end, I'm usually, "oh, sure, got it."
His book, REAMDE, was super interesting to me, until the last two chapters when it was just wrapped up with a bow and ended.
Anathem and Cryptonomicon are his high water marks, IMO, but Diamond Age and Snow Crash are the ones that the sci-fi nerds still get excited about.
I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley. A fictional account of how the US climate/political landscape unfolds as we move into the near term future. Page turner and very scary realistic.
In a similar vein:
Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock (NY Times but it's a gift link so you can read it).
I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley. A fictional account of how the US climate/political landscape unfolds as we move into the near term future. Page turner and very scary realistic.
oooo i'm going to have to check that out, sounds really interesting!
i'm about to start The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. (fiction).
I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley. A fictional account of how the US climate/political landscape unfolds as we move into the near term future. Page turner and very scary realistic.
Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Lost my daughter recently and this book was recommended to meâ¦helping me get my life backâ¦thank you, Neil, whether it be Rushâs drummer or a father/ husband, you really are helpingâ¦I hope you are somewhere out there enjoying their love and company againâ¦
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Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Lost my daughter recently and this book was recommended to meâ¦helping me get my life backâ¦thank you, Neil, whether it be Rushâs drummer or a father/ husband, you really are helpingâ¦I hope you are somewhere out there enjoying their love and company againâ¦
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Nov 2, 2023 - 12:26pm
For the second time while on a road trip, âThe Mountain in the Seaâ audiobook by Ray Nayler. The reader is extremely good at navigating through the story. Donât know if a hard copy would be as entertaining.
I love this book so much.
Itâs a complex exploration into the ideas of sentience, with one foot in a not-too-distant futurist society and another in the reality of what we know about octopi. What?
Our main character is in a remote archipelago (owned by a giant company) at the behest of a hard-to-read genius researcher. At her side, the worldâs only (possibly) sentient android. The question in front of them: what is going on in a piece of wreckage where a large, territorial octopus is living. Is the octopus sentient?
A parallel story involves a robotic fishing vessel, where the owning company has replaced its robotic equipment with slaves, kidnapped from various lives. People are cheaper to maintain, and the boat is all about profit. But in this future, they have fished the oceans almost empty. They want this protected archipelago to give up its remaining fish. Is the ship, with its complex protocols, sentient? Are the slaves, unable to do anything except what the boat AI allows them to do, still sentient?
This is obviously a thoughtful, complex, philosophical book. And Iâll never eat octopus again.
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Nov 1, 2023 - 8:04pm
Ghost Rider, Neil Peart. Lost my daughter recently and this book was recommended to meâ¦helping me get my life backâ¦thank you, Neil, whether it be Rushâs drummer or a father/ husband, you really are helpingâ¦I hope you are somewhere out there enjoying their love and company againâ¦
' A Banquet of Consequences, Reloaded'
by Satyajit Das.
Read the original a few years back now he is back with an updated offering.
Das, a former banker and world renown financial adviser was predicting the then upcoming GFC or 'Great Recession' as he referred to it ,it's fallout and more worry some the failure of the world to act on that experience to prevent the mother of all crashes which he sees as just around the corner.
While his visions of life after the next event are not very comfortable, he does see some positives for humanity coming out of it.
i'll let you know if she gives a reason.
