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Mark Baker
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Nobody's mentioned Greg Bear's Forge of God or its sequel Anvil of Stars. Forge was a great story but a bit depressing though. Anvil was a different style, fast paced and chilling too.
Battlemage! said:I loved the Otherland series by Tad Williams. It's set some 50 to 100 years in the future where the internet has been replaced by a vast series of ineractive virtual reality worlds. Utilizing this, a very powerful cabal of wealthy men and women create a secret world whose operating system is an Artificial Intelligence that is grown from the subconscious minds of millions of comatose children . . . it is able to sample a multitude of different science fiction and fantasy stories, from dystopian Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz, to some H.G. Wells stuff, or what the world would look like if Europeans never came to the New World, World War II, to completely novel worlds, like a kitchen inhabited by 1920s product logo characters, or a library the size of an entire world, so large it's AI inhabitants have yet to plot out all of its locations.
UsableThought said:Hmm, "Matrix" meets "Alice" meets Jorge Luis Borges. Sounds potentially very cool - I've put a hold on the first of the series via our local library.
I hope you enjoy it. As I said it may not be for everyone, but I'm the type of person who enjoys that kind of sci-fi.UsableThought said:Hmm, "Matrix" meets "Alice" meets Jorge Luis Borges. Sounds potentially very cool - I've put a hold on the first of the series via our local library.
Red Shirts by John Scalzi.netgypsy said:What about some that are light, goofy, convoluted, entertaining, easy to read,funny and don't have creepy creatures,
Since you mention movies (I totallyloved those) I would also add About Time (2013) it's similar to The Time Traveler's Wife and it's awesome.Buzz Bloom said:Relatively recent sci-fi movies among my favorites.
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Source Code (2011)
Ender's Game (2013)
The Age of Adeline (2015)
Hi sappho:sappho.poiesis said:Since you mention movies (I totally loved those) I would also add About Time (2013) it's similar to The Time Traveler's Wife and it's awesome.
I'm currently looking around for new good reads (again). I picked up Tau Zero last year on a recommendation (possibly even from someone here).EnumaElish said:Currently reading Baxter's "Ring." Interesting premise, comparable to Tau Zero in its breadth. Fluent writing. Recommendable.
Hi Dave:DaveC426913 said:I picked up Tau Zero last year on a recommendation
Agree. But, like in a gedanken experiment, so it is with a story. You can only violate physics that is not critical to the main goal.Buzz Bloom said:there was a flaw towards the end that violated science as it was known in 1970, and I think it likely Anderson did it anyway because he wanted the emotion of that particular plot element in his story.
Hi Dave:DaveC426913 said:Agree. But, like in a gedanken experiment, so it is with a story. You can only violate physics that is not critical to the main goal.
Yes.Noisy Rhysling said:Are you really trying to avoid spoilers in a book that old?
Noisy Rhysling said:Are you really trying to avoid spoilers in a book that old?
Buzz Bloom said:Yes.
Buzz Bloom said:Hi Dave:
I have a feeling we are not talking about the same "flaw".
And reason this one bothers me so much is because it's a mistake only a complete noob makes. This misconception is so cosmologically basic it's a cliche.Buzz Bloom said:Thanks for your clarification. We are then talking about the same flaw. We were only focusing on two different aspects.
I liked both books too, but rated them the reverse. Forge was also a thriller, and an excellent example of that genre. Along with his Quantico and Mariposa. Bear is one of the very best SF authors. Hell, he rates well with anybody in any genre IMO.Mark Baker said:Nobody's mentioned Greg Bear's Forge of God or its sequel Anvil of Stars. Forge was a great story but a bit depressing though. Anvil was a different style, fast paced and chilling too.