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I haven't (yet) read Vinge, but KSR's Red Mars trilogy is excellent, with featherweight belief suspension requirements. ("2041", even more so.) Weir's "The Mar
by chrisweekly 6y ago
I haven't (yet) read Vinge, but KSR's Red Mars trilogy is excellent, with featherweight belief suspension requirements. ("2041", even more so.)
Weir's "The Martian" was good fun and felt believable. Most of Stephenson's "Seveneves", too, for me.
Enjoy! :)
- Aeolun 6y agoRed Mars is exceptionally slow though. I made it through the first novel, but I had to stop somewhere a quarter into the second because there was just nothing interesting happening (or maybe too much of it?).
- arethuza 6y agoThat's very much a matter of taste though - I loved the pacing of the Mars trilogy and the related "Antarctica" which is pretty much White Mars.
- ghaff 6y agoI liked the first part (technically first 2 parts) of Seveneves. But then [POTENTIAL SOMEWHAT SPOILER] it felt like vastly unlikely events come to pass and Stephenson spends the back part of the book telling the completely different story he wanted to tell.
- chrisweekly 6y agoyeah, hence the "mostly" in my comment. FWIW I really liked the whole thing, but 100% agree it's almost like 2 loosely-related works that ship together. It's the 1st (longer) part that I thought "felt" realistic given the premise.