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

[Giulio Prisco]

Darwinia is great, I liked it a lot. I am now reading Daemon
http://www.thedaemon.com/
and Breakpoint
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0703.html?printable=1
Both very good and interesting from a transhumanost PoV.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
> Damien wrote:
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>> Mostly good choices. DARWINIA is interesting, but look for SPIN as well;
>> it's brilliant.
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> I've moved it up my "to read" list. Darwinia took a while to get into, but
> then I started enjoying it a lot. I found the ending a little disappointing
> but, in general, liked Wilson's style of writing.
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>> Peter Watts's BLINDSIGHT is perhaps the best book of the
>> last decade.
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> Thanks for the recommendation. Now own a copy and have moved it up to
> reading position #6.
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>> 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.)
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> No, I haven't. I remember considering that some time ago, but was put off by
> reviews.
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>> Charlie's MERCHANT PRINCES series is lots
>> of fun, although it loses focus as it goes on.
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> I might get to that series after catching up with some of his others,
> starting with Iron Sunrise and then Accelerando and Glasshouse.
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>>  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.
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> Ha! Did you just coin that? A quick google didn't reveal previous use in
> that sense. It's not just fatasies that I avoid, I mostly avoid excessively
> long SF of any kind. That's why I have yet to read (no doubt good or
> excellent) novels by Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon -- 1168 pages, argh!;
> Anathem -- 1008).
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> To Stefano (I think): Yes, I also read a few Poul Anderson books. Wasn't one
> of my top authors though. Way back then, in addition to the authors I think
> I already mentioned, I did read a lot of Isaac Asimov (though mostly only
> particularly enjoyed his robot stories), and a fair bit of Clifford D.
> Simak, and... lots of others.
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> QUESTION (to Damien, especially, but to other long-time SF readers):
> Mentioning Asimov reminds me of a parody essay(?)/story(?) that I'm pretty
> sure was written by John Sladek, in which various well know SF authors names
> are amusingly skewed, so that, for instance, Isaac Asimov becomes (something
> like) I Click As I Move. Can anyone tell me what book/article/collection I'm
> thinking of?
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