Comments on: Reading Science Fiction

By: muddledblog

muddledblog — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:03:31 +0000

I finished Manifold Space and Time. Good reads. Not great, but good.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:01:53 +0000

Solaris was kinda neat, but I got lost trying to read His Master’s Voice.

Avoid Manifold Origin. I’m not sure what happened. His Xeelee books are neat for the huge timescales involved.

By: muddledblog

muddledblog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:56:15 +0000

I forgot about one more author outside of ABC, Stanislaw Lem. Two books of his stand out in my memory, Fiasco and Chain of Chance. (since everyone seems to be in an italics mood). Anyone else read his stuff?

I have seen Baxter’s Manifold series on the shelf at the used book store and never picked it up. Maybe I should try it - I like wormholes too.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:03:20 +0000

I enjoyed Light Of Other Days and Manifold Time. Dude loves his wormholes.

By: Britt

Britt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:20:18 +0000

I read Baxter’s Titan. That there is a deeply depressing book, but I gotta admit, if they offered me a one-way trip to Saturn, I’d take it.

By: muddledblog

muddledblog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:15:01 +0000

“I am aware of his work.”

It just doesn’t work - I missed my chance.

I recently read The Time Ships which I liked.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:06:00 +0000

Baxter?

By: muddledblog

muddledblog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:45:42 +0000

I totally forgot that Simpson’s reference and I had it set up so well… erggg

By: Britt

Britt — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:04:50 +0000

The correct answer to the Bradbury query, if you know your Simpsons, is to say, coolly, “I’m aware of his work.”

I don’t read hardly any fantasy, m’self. Songs of Earth and Power is just odd enough that I make an exception for it. I read Gaiman, too, for example, because his stuff is just so darn interesting that I forget that I don’t like fantasy.

By: muddledblog

muddledblog — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:56:05 +0000

Yep - I did forget about Ray Bradbury. Definitely fits in with the ABC’s. I was mostly going on who I had read recently.

Fantasy - yuck… how could you. There is a fine line between fantasy and science fiction that I do not normally cross. I did read Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant series which qualifies as fantasy so I am just a horrible horrible liar and hypocrite.

I will go out and get Songs of Earth. Thanks for the recommendation.