Re: everyone's book recs..
Excelllent!!! The menu is certainly bigger than my tummy (hopefully
not my reader), but you guys will get me over the hurdles just looking
forward to it.
Last Summer on vacation I uploaded some Hugos and Nebulas I could find
(released as"classics").
On 07/10/2010, at 4:34 AM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
> These are books I read recently and enjoyed:
>
> "Flood" & "Ark" Stephen Baxter
Trash, but fun disaster trash. :-)
>
> "The City an the City" China Mieville
On the lalpile. Prolly read it next week.
C.
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John Williams wrote:
> David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
>> It could be that The Atrocity Archives is best
>> appreciated if you know a lot of theoretical computer
>> science, so I'll withhold comment.
>
> Did Stross come from a CS background? When you say theoretical
> computer science, do you
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Euan Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Speaking of enjoyable SF, the best I've read recently is The Ghost
> Brigades by John Scalzi.
>
> I liked Old Mans War (to which it is a sequel) but The Ghost Brigades is
> a startlingly good follow up into a differnet leag
Doug said:
>> About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly
>> enough, anyway.
>
> Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of
> American
> history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have the kind of
> command of
> the facts that you do on what you've
Rich wrote:
Doug said:
>
> > But you must have read thousands of pages of history!
>
> About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly
> enough, anyway.
Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of American
history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have t
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> John Williams wrote:
>>> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed
>>> for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left
>>> to have sex with...
>> Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
>> have to check it out now.
>
John Williams wrote:
>
>> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed
>> for having sex with humans but there aren't any humans left
>> to have sex with...
>
> Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
> have to check it out now.
>
Since I didn't read it
Martin Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I liked it:
>
> http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/09/anathem_by_neal.shtml
Interesting review. I must admit this comparison would have never occurred to
me:
"In fact, with its longeurs and constant debate, it occasionally resembles an
unholy hybri
John Williams wrote:
> Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex
>> with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...
>
> Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
> have to check it
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, John Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot
>> version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if
>> it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards.
>
> For s
Doug said:
> But you must have read thousands of pages of history!
About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly
enough, anyway.
But the problem is the opportunity cost of reading the Baroque Cycle.
In that number of pages I could get through, for example, the whole
survi
Richard
>
> Rich, who has some enthusiasm for reading the Baroque Cycle, but that
> enthusiasm is outweighed by being intimidated by the sheer number of
> pages.
But you must have read thousands of pages of history! The Baroque Cycle
seems to be very well researched, and its recreations of 18t
Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex
> with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...
Now I'm wondering what happened to all the humans. I'll definitely
have to check it out now.
> > Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have
> > android sex.
>
> Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she
> have sex with a human? :-)
Um... that's the plot of the book. She's a sexbot designed for having sex
with humans but there aren't any humans left to have sex with...
> > It
David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have
> android sex.
Isn't that, ummm, speciest? DNA'ist? Why can't she
have sex with a human? :-)
> Would that be Hamilton's _The Dreaming Void_?
No, "The Temporal Void", the sequel to Dreaming.
amazon.co.uk should be
David wrote:
>How about Saturn's Children?
I just bought a buttload of books from SFBC, and that was among them. If
people are interested in talking about it,
I could move it up in the queue. I'm in the middle of re-reading _Watchmen_,
which has held up very well over
the past ~25 years.
Jim
>>> My favorites of his are the ones that start with
>>> The Atrocity Archives. Not everyone would come
>>> up with Lovecraftian computer science.
>> I must read more Stross. At the moment all I've read was "A Colder
>> War", which I thought was great (and which is available for free
>> onlin
John Williams wrote:
> David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>> Probably from the cover? : )
>
> Partly, and the blurb I read focused on the android sex
> element.
Well, she's a fembot, she's SUPPOSED to have
android sex. But yes, I had my doubts about
the book at first.
>> Yes, I recommend
Richard Baker wrote:
> David said:
>
>> My favorites of his are the ones that start with
>> The Atrocity Archives. Not everyone would come
>> up with Lovecraftian computer science.
>
> I must read more Stross. At the moment all I've read was "A Colder
> War", which I thought was great (and whi
David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Probably from the cover? : )
Partly, and the blurb I read focused on the android sex
element.
> Yes, I recommend it. Stross
> may not have the most polished writing, but the
> rest of his books are amazing.
Okay, I've added it to my list. I'm not sure if
Martin Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> post-cyberpunk world before writing Cryptonomicom, a sort of Slashdot
> version of the 20th Century. Anathem is what Cryptonomicom would be if
> it covered the whole of Western civilisaton from Plato onwards.
For someone who has read Anathem but not Cryptonomico
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Martin Lewis wrote:
> Basically if you like Cryptonomicom plus Snow Crash you will like Anathem.
OK, good to know -- I have something to really look forward to next week,
then! :)
Thank you very much, Martin.
Julia
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anathem (I mistyped an -a before) is about 900 pages, but
>> after the first 80 pages or so the action picks up and it
>> did not drag at all for me. I'd say it is somewhere in
>> between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle
David said:
> My favorites of his are the ones that start with
> The Atrocity Archives. Not everyone would come
> up with Lovecraftian computer science.
I must read more Stross. At the moment all I've read was "A Colder
War", which I thought was great (and which is available for free
online)
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, John Williams wrote:
> Anathem (I mistyped an -a before) is about 900 pages, but
> after the first 80 pages or so the action picks up and it
> did not drag at all for me. I'd say it is somewhere in
> between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle books as far as
> balance between
John Williams wrote:
> David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>> Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with
>> that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title.
>> I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long
>> for the content.
>
> I skipped Crypto, I imagine I would have
David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with
> that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title.
> I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long
> for the content.
I skipped Crypto, I imagine I would have had the same
impression as you.
A
Charlie wrote:
>
> CP is great. My favourite is PoG, but I think Excession's probably the
> best. Use of Weapons is regarded as the best by many, but I don't
> think it stands up to a re-read as well as E, CP or PoG. Inversions I
> liked a lot better on my recent pre-Matter re-read of the whole lo
On 13/09/2008, at 3:37 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> Of the culture books, Matter was probably my least favorite. Many
> consider
> A Player of Games the best, but I prefer Consider Phlebus. If you
> like
> action, CP's the ticket.
CP is great. My favourite is PoG, but I think Excession's p
On 13/09/2008, at 7:11 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> I did! I did!!
>
>
> Unfortunately when I asked several months ago on this list and the
> Culture list* I seemed to be rather unique in being able to make
> that claim.
Took a while to arrive was the problem. I liked it. Not his best, but
Ronn said:
> *BTW, I haven't heard anything from them in awhile . . . unlike a few
> years ago when that was a quite active list . . .
147 emails so far this month and around three thousand so far this
year on the Culture List seems to be at least roughly comparable to
Brin-L's 330 this month
At 11:11 PM Friday 9/12/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>Jon wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > recently, i've been reading a lot of british authors; lain banks, peter
> > hamilton, ian mcdonald, ian r. and ken macleod, alastair
> reynolds, bob shaw,
> > chas stross...
> > i mostly read hi tech,, cutting edge, near
John Williams wrote:
>
>
> I read it when it came out, but I seem to have forgotten most of it. I
> remember slogging through long descriptive passages wondering when the
> action would start, and when it finally did (at the very end) the ending
> did
> not seem worth the trouble. I think the only
Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So have you read Bank's most recent, Matter?
I read it when it came out, but I seem to have forgotten most of it. I
remember slogging through long descriptive passages wondering when the
action would start, and when it finally did (at the very end) the endi
Jon wrote:
>
>
> recently, i've been reading a lot of british authors; lain banks, peter
> hamilton, ian mcdonald, ian r. and ken macleod, alastair reynolds, bob shaw,
> chas stross...
> i mostly read hi tech,, cutting edge, near future hard sf, some urban
> fantasy and alt history.
> rhys hughes
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have list of some of my favorite novels I can e-mail you if interested...
Thanks for the offer. I am usually only interested in discussing recent
SF novels while I am reading them or while they are still fresh in my
mind after I recently read them.
Any rec
Living in a fantasy world - you say that like it's a bad thing.
From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "Killer Bs Discussion"
Subject: RE: Books
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:48:40 -0500
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson
>
> (Does anyone have anything to say about _Freakanomics_, which
> my mom thought my husband would like for his birthday?)
My wife enjoyed it. She said I shold read it. Dunno much else
about it though.
- jmh
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"Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 09:02 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Books on Red Hat Linux 7.2
>
> "J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
-Original Message-
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 09:02 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Books on Red Hat Linux 7.2
"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 19:15 21-03-03 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:
>
> >Have y
"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 19:15 21-03-03 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:
>
> >Have you ever heard that saying "Real men don't eat quiche?",
>
> Then those "real men" obviously never tasted Sonja's quiche... :-)
No matter how good it is, it's just not macho in the US. Western omlette,
Denver
At 19:15 21-03-03 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:
> The reason I explicitly mentioned RH 7.2 is that I recently bought a
> box set of RH 7.2 Professional on the cheap (EUR 35, down from EUR
> 235). Given the price I already figured a new version must have been
> released, but for an absolute newbie who j
Hey Jeroen,
On Friday, March 21, 2003 12:02 PM you wrote:
> At 07:56 21-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> > > I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
> >
> >Do you know that RH 8.0 has been released, and it is a fair bit different
> >from 7.x?
>
> Yes and no. Yes, I know RH 8.0
On 21 Mar 2003 at 19:15, Han Tacoma wrote:
> Hey Jeroen,
>
> On Friday, March 21, 2003 12:02 PM you wrote:
>
> > At 07:56 21-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> >
> > > > I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
> > >
> > >Do you know that RH 8.0 has been released, and it is a fair
Hey Jeroen,
On Friday, March 21, 2003 12:02 PM you wrote:
> At 07:56 21-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> > > I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
> >
> >Do you know that RH 8.0 has been released, and it is a fair bit different
> >from 7.x?
>
> Yes and no. Yes, I know RH 8.0
At 16:09 21-03-03 -0500, Gary Nunn wrote:
Jeroen,
Check out www.abebooks.com before you buy from Amazon.
Thanks Gary! That was indeed a very useful suggestion! :-)
I paid them a quick visit and found both titles there (albeit from two
different sellers, which means higher S&H). I didn't make
Jeroen,
Check out www.abebooks.com before you buy from Amazon.
Gary
>
> I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
> - Red Hat Linux 7.2: The Complete Reference, Second Edition
>Author: Richard Petersen
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/> 0072191783
> Red Hat Lin
* Nick Arnett [Fri, 21/03/2003 at 07:56 -0800]
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:27 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Books on Red Hat Linux 7.2
> >
> >
> > I am considering
At 07:56 21-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
Do you know that RH 8.0 has been released, and it is a fair bit different
from 7.x?
Yes and no. Yes, I know RH 8.0 has been released, but no, I am not yet
familiar with the differences. And rig
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Books on Red Hat Linux 7.2
>
>
> I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
Do you know that RH 8.0 h
In a message dated 11/24/2002 9:23:13 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hmm. I was looking for a copy of Stranger in a Strange Land the other
> day at Know Knew Books but the only one they had was an old hardcover,
> in excellent shape with the dust cover, for $150.
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