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Tag Archives: scifi
Reading Log: Matter (Iain M. Banks)
Matter, the latest novel in Iain M. Banks’s speculative fiction series (loosely defined) set in the far-future, inter-galactic world of the “Culture” is a glorious mess. On the glorious side are all the things I’ve liked—and sometimes loved—about the other … Continue reading
Reading Log: Bloom (Wil McCarthy)
Bloom is a tale of nanotech gone wild. Seemingly insatiable nanotech spores of unknown and accidental origin– the Mycora– have taken over Earth and the inner solar system, consuming most of humanity and creating what the humans eking out an … Continue reading
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Tagged 101010 challenge, nanotechnology, reading log, scifi, wil mccarthy
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Reading Log: Usurper of the Sun (Housuke Nojiri)
Picked this Japanese sci-fi novel up on a whim, inspired by the front-cover blurb that included the words and phrases: “poetic first contact,” “alien peril,” and “think Arthur C. Clarke meets Haruki Murakami.” Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama is one of … Continue reading
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Tagged 101010 challenge, books, housuke nojiri, reading, scifi
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Partaking of the Slipstream
Perhaps because I don’t follow the genre(s) involved closely, though I do read quite a bit in them, I had never paid attention to the term “Slipstream” until now. Via Bryan Alexander come two great links that inform me I’ve … Continue reading
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Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)
This is how much I like Vernor Vinge’s writing: I purchased Rainbows End (there really is no apostrophe in the title) the first time I saw it, in hardback at full cover price, without looking at the price, the blurbs, … Continue reading
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Science Fiction Treasury (edited by Isaac Asimov)
Two collections of stories from the 50s-70s are collected in this volume, edited with intro and introductory story notes by Isaac Asimov and Martin Greenberg. The first volume, The Future in Question, is composed completely of stories whose titles are … Continue reading
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