Doug Pensinger wrote:I'm just finishing Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
What did you think?
Haven't quite finished yet, battle looming on the Enterprise. Stephenson is a real talent, but I hope the ending is better than Diamond Age. More later.
I was shopping for my brother in law who also reads a lot of SF and ended up getting him a copy of Iain M. Banks' Inversions without thinking too much about it. I need to get a copy of Consider Phlebas or Player of Games (or both) for him to read first
Player of Games is the only one I've read so far, and I liked it a lot. It seems like a good intro to the Culture. What should I read next from him, you think?
Consider Phlebas gives an outsiders view of the culture and allows you to entertain THE question*. But they are all good; Use of Weapons, Inversions(as I mentioned familiarity with the Culture is a plus before reading this one), Excession (take notes), State of the Art and Look to Windward. I haven't read the two non Culture books; Against a Dark Background and Feersom Endjinn.
Jim
Not that I don't already have about 10 books in the pipeline thanks to the holidays Maru
Ah, my Lal-pile** is considerably larger than that and continues to grow unchecked thanks to the used book store near my work that I can't seem to stay away from.
-- Doug
*Is Horza a git?
**A culture list reference a member of whom, Lalith Vipulananthan, is famous for his stack of unread books.
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