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I've given out several copies of "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson and "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang.
by zgotsch 10y ago
I've given out several copies of "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson and "Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang.
- joelhooks 10y agoI've given about 30 copies of Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome. It's wonderful. edit: whoops meant to reply to OP
- netcraft 10y agoI will probably give _Seveneves_ this christmas.
- thedudemabry 10y agoTed Chiang's short story collection is the most concentrated dose of fantastic sci-fi/fantasy I've read. Each story is brief, memorable, and plays with at least one neat "what if?" I've also given out a couple of copies because it's a great way to demonstrate SF&F genre awesomeness to the sceptical in just a few pages.
- nl 10y agoEveryone should read Ted Chiang. https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the...