[ExI] What SF do you plan to read next?

[Damien Broderick]

On 3/22/2010 5:23 PM, Max More wrote:
> To read next:
> Darwinia, by Robert Charles Wilson. (Reading March 2010)
> Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.
> The Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick.
> Vacuum Flowers, Michael Swanwick
> Arthur C. Clarke, A Fall of Moondust.
> Stations of the Tide, by Michael Swanwick.
> Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.
> Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman.
> Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
> Iron Man, by Peter David.
> Titan by John Varley.
> The Playboy Book of Science Fiction.

Mostly good choices. DARWINIA is interesting, but look for SPIN as well; 
it's brilliant. Peter Watts's BLINDSIGHT is perhaps the best book of the 
last decade. Swanwick's JACK FAUST. The TITAN trilogy is worth 
perservering with, although it has its long dull stretches. Have you 
tried Stan Robinson's RED, GREEN, BLUE MARS trilogy? (You might find the 
political ethos disagreeable.) Charlie's MERCHANT PRINCES series is lots 
of fun, although it loses focus as it goes on. Alas, sf has been mostly 
replaced by vast fatasies (sic), which are mostly not nearly as 
interesting as Stross's faux-fantasies-sf-in-disguise.

Damien Broderick