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It's pretty funny, I have to admit -I read one book on this list Singularity Sky.
No game plan lists ever again, so help me. From Stross's Singularity Sky:
“It was a clear, cold April afternoon; the clocks of St. Michael had just finished striking fourteen hundred...”
(If you can't quite place the reference, think famous first lines.) 19. Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross
A continuation of Singularity Sky, in a way. Some of the same characters, definitely the same world, but a different story. This one was definitely interesting and I enjoyed it. I love the way Stross treats all of his characters as individual people, ... ... h.
15. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Fun fluff. I had this on my desk at work, and picked it up when I finished Singularity Sky. This was compulsively readable, and I really enjoyed it, but it wasn't life-changing by any stretch of the imagination. 13. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
I really like Charles Stross. I am so glad that I recently discovered him, and that I discovered him after he wrote many books (unlike Tana French above, who has only written two books so far, and now I have to wait for more!). It may make me ... I finally got around to reading Singularity Sky; was that a mistake! For one thing I found it to be a real good read. Two, I would have had a better understanding of a lot of Stross' standard operating procedures. Also, I knocked off Ragamuffin at the very end of last year; not bad, not ... ... books this year.
I'd like to take on all my Stross novels that I have lying around-Atrocity Archives, Iron Sunrise, Singularity Sky etc, I really enjoyed Accelerando last year and just haven't had the time to read these things.
Pattern Recognition -Long overdue to read this.
I'd ... 75. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross - liked it, but didn't love it. I’m reading Charles Stross’s Singularity Sky. The first sentence:
The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd.
The dictatorship that rules the planet is shaken to its marrow over the next 48 hours. (And I ... ... Golden Compass (my husband hated it), but thought the series became too didactic. The last book is fairly unreadable. Singularity Sky is fast paced and inventive. The Swanwick is well written. I prefer the earlier Delany.
Make of this what you will. ... out my SF&F between other genres so I'd like to maximize my enjoyment of it. Right now I am trying to decide between:
Singularity Sky by Charlie Stross
Startide Rising by David Brin
The Iron Dragons Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Stars In My Poc ... ... Strange and Mr Norrell is brilliant, but an acquired taste. Think Jane Austen meets Neil Gaiman.
I recently reviewed Singularity Sky and enjoyed it, I plan to read the other Stross titles in your list.
I don't care what anyone says, I enjoyed The Da Vinci code and I'm not ashamed to ... Two more HPB coupons, two more books:
Virtual Light by William Gibson, and
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross Surprised no-one's mentioned Charlie Stross yet. Accelerando and Singularity Sky are both rather good. His most recent is Halting State, which has a lovely cover here in the UK (complete with author portrait too) but I haven't read that yet. I was bad on Friday. Went to Barnes and Noble and picked up:
Dzur by Steven Brust
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
Like my TBR pile needed any new additions. Oh, I was bad today.
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
Dzur by Steven Brust
I read Singularity Sky over the weekend. It's a good story. Stross throws technical space opera engineering terms around like dandelion floss, which makes it a little hard to follow at times (unless you skip those paragraphs), but it was ultimately a good political/space-battle/world-in-crisis ... I went back to my neighborhood "$2-off till 10/28" bookstore and picked up Singularity Sky, Way Station and Time is the Simplest Thing. Charles Stross is a current sci-fi author; Clifford Simak doesn't get enough credit as one of the early sci-fi masters, IMO. ... what you mean by Baxter being more of a clean world. His world builing is so more more organized that my foray into CP. And Singularity Sky is for sure on my read very soon list.
re: #37-40
I actaully just picked up two Alistair Reynolds books this weekend. I think they were Absolution ... As for Charlie Stross reading Singularity Sky might be a better starting point. Although it is set post-singularity and features a posthuman entity it is far more traditional in feel (or at least that is how I found it). This week I broiught home Elantris, The Time Traveler's Wife, and Singularity Sky, all because of mentions on LT. Still working on Lamb, then will figure out which to tackle next. ... Strains by Gene Wolfe
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things by Gary Geddes
Forgotten English by Jeffrey Kacirk
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
... perhaps I should slowly start migrating to the "bibiloholism"-dungeon
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... read Accelerando, and now won't for fear of diminishing my pleasure in Stross's work. I did pick up and devour Singularity Sky with pleasure.
John Zakour is a completely new name to me. Drat you! Another author to investigate! The Amazon.com folks must drool every time ... ... That is new, I presume? I will have to check the library. I wasn't worried about accessible, he just asked favorite?
Singularity Sky yes, that was fun. I am waiting to see if he has a SF twist to The Family Trade etc., as well.
Joel Shepherd's Cassandra Kressnov novels are fun too. ... ... to do with it.
On the technology as equaliser front, you have books with elements like those found inCharlie Stross' Singularity Sky, where a population is suddenly all given personal replicators, no need to therefore have anything to do with the entrenched power structures for food, ... ... creations like Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Snow Crash, and Singularity Sky, and steampunk (wikipedia) like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ...
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