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You show follow John Carmack[0] or Elon Musk[1] on twitter. They keep making my sci fi queue grow (John more so than Elon though). [0] https://twitter.com/ID_A
by whatever_dude 11y ago
You show follow John Carmack[0] or Elon Musk[1] on twitter. They keep making my sci fi queue grow (John more so than Elon though).
[0] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk
- MaysonL 11y agoSpeaking of science fiction, I've just been rereading Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution [0] series. Great stuff, and I totally agree with Kim Stanley Robinson's assessment: "He is writing revolutionary SF. A nova has appeared in our sky." [0] The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.
- veidr 11y agoThanks! I just bought The Star Fraction purely on your recommendation... I find gambling like that pays off big, sometimes. To return the favor, I recommend you try Blindsight and its sequel Echopraxia, by Peter Watts. Those were two of my favorite books of 2015 (the books are older, but I only found them this year). Unusual, but awesome, SF.
- MaysonL 11y agoI just read both of those earlier this year, based partially on recommendations on HN. Speaking of book recommendations, try almost any book reviewed in Jo Walton's collection of essays: *What Makes This Book So Great?. I read and bought about the first half-dozen or so that I hadn't already read, and there was only one that I didn't enjoy thoroughly, and more because it was too much of an emotional downdraft than because it was badly written, which it wasn't at all.