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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:39 pm
by GORDON
Hey use this thread to keep me abreast of the happenings in the world of fiction, preferably in the flavor of science. I don't have time to hit every new thing that comes out and I won't waste my time on shit so I usually end up consuming new media like 3 years after everyone else did because that's when the good word of mouth finally reaches me.
I'm looking at you, The Martian. I vaguely remember when it was new but ignored it, and now I wish I hadn't.
So use this thread for what I just said. It's even stickied so you wont need to search for it.
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:47 pm
by TPRJones
I haven't made it to the movie yet, but unless it's 16 hours long I can't imagine they got all the good stuff from the book into it. So go read it already.
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:16 pm
by GORDON
TPRJones wrote:I haven't made it to the movie yet, but unless it's 16 hours long I can't imagine they got all the good stuff from the book into it. So go read it already.
Already ordered it.
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:44 pm
by TheCatt
I'm about 87.5% done with the Martian, read parts of it on my plane trip. It's probably a 6 to 7 hour read.
I'm a fan of Press Start to Play so far. It's a bunch of short stories that are video game inspired or themed. Written by many different authors.
Armada is pretty decent. 2nd book by Ernest Cline who wrote Ready Player One. Neither is an awesome stand-alone book, but both are FILLED with nostalgia vibes for gamers our age.
The New Books thread
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:50 pm
by Troy
The Novel “The Three Body Problem” is excellent. I had seen it mentioned a bunch but I guess I had written it off because:
1) it’s Chinese centric and written originally in that language
2) the title didn’t grab me for some reason - it sounded like a murder mystery.
Don’t make either of those same mistakes if you are considering reading it. It’s an excellent science fiction book. On par with the better Expanse books and totally ruined some of the “pulp” military sci fi I read after it. Lou deserved the Hugo award for sure.
The sequel “the dark forest” is on my travel reading list.
The New Books thread
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:20 pm
by TheCatt
Troy wrote: The Novel “The Three Body Problem” is excellent. I had seen it mentioned a bunch but I guess I had written it off because:
I've had this on my list forever.
Unrelated to this book, but I really liked Blake Crouch's Dark Matter. Pines was good, but the trilogy as a whole got pretty weak after that book. He apparently has a new book out as well
The New Books thread
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:42 pm
by thibodeaux
Not new books but I don't want to start a new thread:
most books published in the US before 1964 are in the public domain
It turns out that eighty percent of 1924-1963 books never had their copyright renewed. More importantly, with a couple caveats about foreign publication and such, we now know which 80%.
Also notes that Project Gutenberg has a bunch of sci-fi stories from the 50s and 60s.
The New Books thread
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:57 pm
by thibodeaux
The New Books thread
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:39 pm
by TheCatt
Blake Crouch - Writes technothrillery suspensy books. From NC. Wayward Pines series was his first popular series. The first book was good in the series, the others were "Meh"
That being said, my favorite two books from him are Dark Matter and Recursion. They're based on specific sciencey premises that might fall apart under scrutiny, but make some well-written fun books in the meantime. I recommend them if you like technothriller type books.