Notes to self: Read these

[garote]

Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days
Stephen Baxter - Voyage, The Time Ships, Anti-Ice, Moonseed
Ben Bova - Mars, Return To Mars, Jupiter, Venus
Greg Bear - Eon, and Eternity
Mike Brotherton - Star Dragon
Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes - Encounter with Tiber
Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper - Building Harlequin's Moon
Samuel R Delany - Nova
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

Comments

[beatings.livejournal.com]

I liked Pattern Recognition a lot. Haven't read the others.

[robocowboy.livejournal.com]

Building Harlequin's Moon was interesting to me when I read it, touched on a lot of ideas that really got my brain going, but somehow I'd only gotten about half way through when it came time to return it to the library and I never felt the urge to finish it...

I think it might be the same reason I'm slogging through The Forge of God by Greg Bear. Interesting, yes, but when I have trouble connecting with or even caring about the characters (and a lot of SF authors have trouble with characters) it turns into a chore to read.

[breakpoint.livejournal.com]

Get through The Forge of God-- try to enjoy it for what it is, which is a bit of a love song for the Earth.

Anvil of Stars is worth it, far more interesting, and ends with probably the most difficult question ever posited in a science fiction story.

[breakpoint.livejournal.com]

You forgot "Altered Carbon", by Richard K. Morgan.

BTW, I will totally second a recommendation for "The Light of Other Days". A lot of people panned it but I think there are some important ideas in there, and it's also a bit of a torch pass from Clarke to Baxter, who is also quite good.

[shinkagakusha.livejournal.com]

Weird. I just got a copy of the audiobook of Eon from a coworker. Not too bad 60 or so pages in I suppose, although the narrator calls ħ "slash h." It's "h-bar" motherfucker!

[breakpoint.livejournal.com]

We had a sign on the physics grad lounge at Cal Poly that said "ℏ & Grill".

[breakpoint.livejournal.com]

Damn it. Fuck HTML with a broomstick.