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In this case (and Blood Music and Flowers For Algernon which are other instances of the same issue) they will stay uncombined barring any idiots. The shorter work is clearly marked with [short story] suffixing the title and is separate at the moment.
The issue seems to be that ... ... 'Future Classics' to complement the eight titles issued under this series title last year. I've purchased all of them bar Blood Music, which I already had a copy of, and love their funky bindings -- the furry cover of Stephen Baxter's Evolution is especially outré!
Does anyone know ... ... feel a bit more capable of slotting these into their correct places.
I decided to slot Ventus into the SF slot I took Blood Music out of a few months ago. They're not really the same but I think they've got the 'feel' right. I hadn't read a good hard SF for a while, this hit the spot just ... ... as in Machines? Or lower forms of?
For the former, Saberhagen's Berserkers - Goodlife/Badlife has exactly that.
Blood Music by Greg Bear
The Robot is Running Away From the Trees - Terry ... ... to be prompted by comics/graphic novels (The Sandman, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Maus, ect.) and sci-fi/fantasy (Blood Music, A Wizard Alone, The Crystal City, etc.) including a lot of Orson Scott Card's Mormon influenced works (all of the above are highly represented in my ... Read a couple more books this past week. . .
23. Beauty Like the Night by Liz Carlyle
24. Blood Music by Greg Bear
... the Galaxy
2. 2001: Space Odyssey
3. Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?
4. Cryptonomion
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Blood Music
7. Eon
8. Contact
5. Fantasy Books I haven't already read
1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. Dracula
3. The Lovely Bones
4. Frankestein
5. Perfume: The Story ... I think your right -Blood Music wasn't in this list -- its on my 888 list. Sorry -- we are at 28 not 29 Is Blood Music on the list? Finished two more books on this list:
#28: Contact by Carl Sagan
#29: Blood Music by Greg Bear
Really liked Blood Music
... Odyssey
3. Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?
4. Cryptonomion
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Blood Music
7. Eon
8. Contact
5. Fantasy Books I haven't already read
1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. Dracula
3. The Lovely Bones
4. ... ... I'm going to set a goal of 70 for 2008.
Here are some of the TBRs:
The Singapore Grip
The Science of Music
An Owl Too Many
The Double Helix
The Nature of the Judicial Process
Word Freak
... Bugs?
For Blood Music it says: Member-uploaded covers 13, Covers from Amazon 7
I'm seeing 12 & 6. (And it is a long download.)
What's with author disambiguation notices? Will they be back? Many were intended to prevent wrong combining. Are they to become part of Common Knowledge or ... Not sure if this bug has been mentioned yet or not:
Using the same Blood Music page as an example, if I click on the "Members" link along the left-hand side, I get an empty connections section (as Tim already acknowledged), but I also get all of the members who own the book showing up in the "R ... #62
Amen.
It's (Blood Music) more like the prototypical work of that movement that didn't quite coalesce; ribofunk. andyl:
There were a lot of people in class that objected to some of those classifications as well - about Blood Music specifically - the key points were that he's an 'outsider' scientist that 'becomes one with the machine' - more like Bruce Sterling's vision of cyberpunk than William Gibs ... I know that Bruce Sterling hailed Blood Music as one of the founding texts of cyberpunk but I cannot see it myself.
Firstly, there is the world and protagonists. We aren't in the gritty world of nearly any other cyberpunk. Our protagonists are scientists and normal businessmen and the ... (part 2 of 6)
"The Cyberpunk Movement"
Greg Bear (Blood Music)
Pat Cadigan (Mindplayers, Synners, Fools, Tea From an Empty Cup)
Marc Laidlaw (Dad's Nuke)
Tom Maddox (Halo)
Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware)
Lewis Shiner (Frontera ... Music and song:
Blood Canticle by Anne Rice
Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Bach, Beethoven, and the Boys: Music History as it Ought to Be Taught by David W. Barber ... Dark is well worthy of its Nebula
Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children are worth reading as is his Blood Music if you haven't already read that. ... & Polar Star - by Martin Cruz Smith
Pride & Prejudice - by Jane Austen
The Little Sister - by Raymond Chandler
Blood Music - by Greg Bear
The Vampire Lestat - by Anne Rice
Strangely, the last book I read was a re-read of Donna Tartt's The Secret History. I liked Blood Music by Greg Bear when I first read it, and have not done so in quite some time. Same thing for Charles Sheffield and his Nimrod Hunt. But they are a different era (so to speak) from Zelazny and Sturgeon. Along the lines of Wilhelm's Where Last the Sweet Birds Sang (whi ... ... not a bad starting point.
I don't understand why either the Donaldson OR the Rice is on it. I think I'd send in Blood Music for the Anne Rice.
I think I've read about 36 of 'em (I'm weak on the fantasy side), but a couple titles that I assume I've read aren't bringing up very much ... ... I'm struck by how many covers I don't like (e.g. Pale Fire, great book, awful cover). But my favorites are: Black Hole, Blood Music (the first user-provided cover), The Wolves in The Walls, Sarah Canary (the user-provided cover), Ice Haven, Women, Mother, Come Home, Persepolis. An ...
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