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| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Fantasy/SF, Part 0000010 | | 31 | aquascum, Monday 3:15pm | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Rekindle my interest in SF | | 103 | andyl, Friday 5:09am | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Computer-based sci-fi? | | 19 | ctpete, November 15 | |
| Club Read 2009 : Reading_fox's reads 2009 | | 62 | reading_fox, October 20 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Wntrmute 50 for 2009 | | 29 | Wntrmute, October 19 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : What Every Science Fiction Fan Should Read (?) | | 61 | StormRaven, October 14 | |
| The Green Dragon : Top 5 on your TBR list | | 78 | Shanra, October 3 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : September 2009 Reading | | 85 | beniowa, October 1 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Fantasy/SF | | 354 | TadAD, September 29 | |
| The Green Dragon : What's your favourite book so far this year? | | 91 | rojse, September 16 | |
| The Green Dragon : Your August aquisitions | | 178 | MerryMary, September 1 | |
| The Green Dragon : August Reads 2009 | | 181 | Billion, September 1 | |
| The Green Dragon : July reads, 2009 | | 144 | katttg, August 1 | |
| The Green Dragon : July's Joyous Bargains | | 35 | Shanra, July 29 | |
| Book talk : choice of tense, narrator, etc. | | 9 | SylviaC, June 24 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : fengors 2009ers | | 13 | fengor, June 14 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : First person narratives | | 33 | Carnophile, May 6 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : HUGO Nominations are up! | | 94 | StormRaven, April 12 | |
| The Green Dragon : Next group read? (Feb 09) | | 57 | clamairy, February 13 | |
| The Green Dragon : April's New Books - did you get some?? | | 122 | katylit, January 27 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Near Future Science Fiction | | 40 | kswolff, January 22 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Susan's 100 books | | 129 | sussabmax, January 7 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : TadAD's 75 Book Challenge | | 373 | TheTortoise, December 2008 | |
| Group Reads - Sci-Fi : Book 3 | | 69 | iansales, December 2008 | |
| Group Reads - Sci-Fi : Coffeehouse | | 193 | CD1am, September 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : BrentNewhall's 2008 Challenge | | 24 | BrentNewhall, September 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : Mark's 8 in 8 | | 1 | marklewis, September 2008 | |
| Book talk : A silly book game (part 3) | | 303 | hemlokgang, August 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: JULY. 2008 | | 231 | IaaS, August 2008 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Help--hard drive died just after Tor removed freebies | | 14 | ronincats, July 2008 | |
| Book talk : Good books with 2nd person narration? | | 17 | Eustrabirbeonne, July 2008 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : What are you reading? Q2 2008 | | 219 | lssian, June 2008 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : The Mundane Movement in Science Fiction | | 63 | VisibleGhost, May 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Trystorp's books in a year | | 65 | Trystorp, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Top 3 wishlist books | | 30 | iansales, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : What are you reading Q1 '08? | | 305 | rojse, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Newer SF Authors | | 33 | andyl, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Your 2007 Best Reads in the Genre | | 24 | stellarexplorer, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : What You're Reading In The Genre Q4 07 | | 85 | Shrike58, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Anyone interested in a group read? | | 38 | GeorgiaDawn, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 15 December 2007 | | 142 | alcottacre, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Hugo Nominees for 2008 | | 53 | bluetyson, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : What You're Reading In The Genre Q3 07 | | 76 | CliffBurns, September 2007 | |
In addition...
Toast (short stories) and Halting State (young adult) by Charles Stross
Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge
Hard Drive by David Pogue (dated, though)
Kipper's Game by Barbara Ehrenreich
Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe
Trouble's Friends ... ... Princes books. I find them fair so I generally wait for paperback to come around. I'll see if I can find a copy of Halting State somewhere. ... to me) are the German 'Shadowrun' authors, and that still is not 'real' Cyberpunk as such.
I did like Charles Stross' Halting State, but it's not 'real' Cyberpunk, either. I'm into Halting State by Charles Stross. ... brother - although this is probably too YA for you. Kil'n people an excellent introduction to David Brin's work, or halting state - very much modern cyberpunk style.
As an older style crossover option there is police your planet by lester del ray. Again part detective/part SF/part ... I have actually read some of he books off my TBR as of above (since last update Halting State and Century Rain, and halfway through The Talking Ape) but I agree with littlegeek on this one. My TBR consists of unread books; my immediate TBR's are books at the top of the queue, at the time I ... Hm, I'd say the Chanur books (which technically is 5 books but the 3 in the middle is one story, so), and Halting State, plus The dark heart of Italy for non fiction.
I'm in the middle of The Talking Ape, and I think when I finish it that one will oust the Italy book from the non-fic ... Halting State by Charles Stross
Good, fast paced sf, cyberpunk roots, draws on LARP, MMORG, traditional RPG and re-enactment as well as recent soft- and hardware developments. Very much up my alley, I'll look for more books by this author. 79. Halting State by Charles Stross
Good, fast paced sf, cyberpunk roots, draws on LARP, MMORG, traditional RPG and re-enactment as well as recent soft- and hardware developments. Very much up my alley, I'll look for more books by this author. ... Depending on how I feel for it I'll have to start something else as well. Another Stross, maybe? I really liked Halting State. Have to visit the bookshop, if so ;-) Just finished Halting State, which I enjoyed very much. Not had time to write a review yet but will add one in 6 to 8 hours or so. ... editor. I will give him a second chance, but not before shaving more layers of my TBR stack.
Next up, I think, will be Halting State, which has waited almost as long as Century Rain. More free ebooks with alan quatermain very similar to King Solomen's Mines, although the ending is better.
halting state which was fun. I've pretty much always been an RPG gamer so I could at least grasp the underlying concepts, and have a fair stab at the techno-geekery. Not sure this would ... Moved on to Halting state ironically in pbook instead of on my ereader. I've a few pbooks to get trhough befroe I can return, cureently on furies of calderon to see if it's any better in re-read, I've the next academ's fury ready as well.
I enjoyed Halting State quite a bit, but if you ... ... and allan quartermain. BUT I happened to be passing Waterstones and had a brouse. I escaped with academ's fury halting state silks and the sam gunn omnibus none of which I'll be able to find as ebooks. But I don't really want to stop reading ebooks - a pbook is so awkward in ... Book 11: A Tale etched in blood and hard black pencil (Christopher Brookmyre)- 339 pages
Book 12: Halting State (Charles Stross)- 376 pages
Still loving Brookmyre's stuff- although I'm glad I'd read some of his others to bridge the language gap to Glaswegian as the schoolyard ... I have a hard time with stream-of-conscious narratives.
One of the reasons I picked up a copy of Halting State is because it's written in second person. Other than Choose Your Own Adventure books, I've never read a book in second person. I actually still haven't yet...
*moves book higher up ... ... Stross. Being a Brit, I obviously didn't notice that in Glasshouse - the only Stross novel I've read, although I do have Halting State somewhere on the TBR pile. Oh wait - I do have a PDF of Accelerando as well.
Have you tried reading Richard Morgan's Black Man (AKA Thirteen)? ... - All the dangers of online shopping... ;-)
From my list above I can make a 'check' for Hunting Party - the others (Halting state, Century rain & To ride hell's chasm) remains on the list.
Also on the list is The Talking Ape, Social origins of dictatorship and democracy and Da ... ... -- it doesn't really register.
Second person, OTOH, is still quite rare. The only recent examples I can think of are Halting State by Charles Stross (second-person with multiple POV, which is quite an accomplishment) and The Gospel of the Knife by Will Shetterly. There's also a short ... Halting state
Century rain
To ride hell's chasm
Hunting party
...in no particular order. Yes thanks, but I have no ideas.
Personally I have Halting state, Book of the new sun and Century rain (and a Chanur omnibus, but I really don't expect there to be another C.J. Cherryh read, no I haven't read that yet) in my immediate TBR pile, but I'm up for suggestions. ... eleskop★★★
February:
Charles Stross - Accelerando★★★★
Charles Stross - Halting State★★★★
Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys (reread)★★★★
Hans J. Alpers - Das zerrissene Land
March:
Ha ... ... graphic novel person, but I thought this was a good way to tell this story. I am going to look for part 2 soon.
82. Halting State by Charles Stross
I really enjoyed this book, too. Not a big surprise, since I liked Glasshouse so much. I like the way Stross creates believable ... ... er, of his novels. I thought Glasshouse could have been so much better than it was. And I've yet to read the free copy of Halting State I was given at alt.fiction last April... But I'll give him a try anyway - more so than the Vinge (which would be a reread), Sawyer or Nagata. ... future gives:
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson (21)
Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson (13)
Halting state by Charles Stross (13)
Sixty days and counting by Kim Stanley Robinson (10)
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (16)
Market Forces by Richard Morgan (12)
H ... ... Apprentice
3. There and Back Again
4. So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
5. Halting State
6. Babel-17
7. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
8. The Female Man
Non-Fiction
1. This Gaming Life
2. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning ... ... Troost (enjoyed), Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (mixed), A Trip to the Beach by Melinda Blanchard (good), Halting State by Charles Stross (good), The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester (bad), Farthing by Jo Walton (good), The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexand ... Well, I ended up with Halting state, To ride hell's chasm (been looking for that one for quite a while but her books are hard to come by in Sweden), The dark heart of Italy, Moorish Spain, The Chanur saga and Science fiction film posters.
I still regret that I left the anthology on ... "Live-action real-time role-playing."
Halting State by Charles Stross
"What did you tell the police?" Halting State was not one of the Watch the Skies freebies. ... and I have 23 I downloaded from Tor.
Farthing is one of the missing ones with no kindle version available at all.
Halting State is another missing one, this time there is a kindle version but not free. ... se, it's not worth the wordcount.
I thought the idea was to choose something new. How about...
Farthing, Jo Walton
Halting State, Charles Stross
Kéthani, Eric Brown.
Or maybe I could even suggest this one...
...
31) (13) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
32) (14) A Trip to the Beach by Melinda Blanchard
33) Halting State by Charles Stross
34) (15) The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
35) Farthing by Jo Walton
36) The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Ale ... ... Lee
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain by Margaret Irwin
Borders - Store
Troy: Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell
Halting State by Charles Stross
Vampire Wars: Von Carstein Trilogy by Steven Savile
You know I tried a mojito it sounded so good, but to me its like someone took ... ... books, Antarctica and Captial City trilogy.
A lot of high-frontier novels (like Bova has been writing lately)
Stross's Halting State
McDonald's River Of Gods
However at least two of the writers there aren't fans of the label or the manifesto.
#25
The Mundane-SF blog even claims ... ... at first fit into the category, if not the movement - e.g., senjmito #5, maybe. I note that Charles Stross' latest, Halting State, is clearly a mundane story, though I don't think he says so anywhere. There's a lot of SF these days, and there's room for all preferences. And as andyl #9 ... In Halting State, Stross is attempting the most difficult sort of current SF story - near future extrapolation. He'll fail, as must anyone. The world changes quickly and unpredictably. But there are stretches of the book where I felt I was keeping barely ahead of a rush of new ideas. There's a ... I quite liked Halting State.
After a short while the multiple second-person narrative bedded in and I didn't notice it. I don't mind books with a regional identity or difficult accent (I had no problem with Feersum Endjinn either but I know a lot of people did). As I am in the UK and a Brit ... #66 I'd heard Halting State was a mess - second person narration, Scottish accents, too much reliance on UK idiom... and as for the technical aspects, I've always said Stross is a counterfeit geek... The only book of his I've read is Glasshouse, and I thought he had a neat idea there and threw ... >53 My husband just finished reading Halting State and we both agree that is a confusing mess. The virtual reality is poorly done. The spy LARP is laughable. And the Scottish accents make parts of it unreadable. As much as I like Charlie and as much as I feel he deserved a Hugo for Glasshous ... I thought Brasyl quite fine, although not the equal to the previous River of Gods. I thought Halting State the better of the two - though they're quite different. Ian McDonald does better characters, I think. ... is that sarcasm? Theres quality in the BFSA but the way you phrased it makes it ambiguous.
Also, I'd like to say I want Halting State to win even though I've never read it. I love Stross and he got shafted on Accelerando. I am reading Halting State by Charles Stross. Scottish Sci-Fi? MMORPG Heists? Clearly this is the most interesting book I've read in a while... I bought Halting State by Charles Stross. A Heist story + Heist taking place in an MMORPG = Awesome reading it appears.
I also picked up a nice hardcover of Wrong About Japan which is cheaper than the paperback for some reason, it's by Peter Carey, an Australian guy apparently. Read ... ... to being nominated. If it had been nominated, it would have been great, but I still think this is Scalzi's year.
>14 Halting State? Ah, not even close to being as good as Glasshouse. And Accelerando was a paste up of previously written short stories. I liked it, but it was wobbly.
... ... Last Colony of the nominees, so I should get on that! I need to purchase Brasyl, The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Halting State, though, and I am trying to stay away from the bookstore for a while. (Don't mention the library, I have difficulty with that whole returning the book thing.. ... ... first two science in the capitol books were.
Reading the Hugo nominees, already read The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Halting State and The Last Colony so I'm starting on Brasyl right now. ... Hugo nominees that I don't own:
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Halting State by Charles Stross
But, since I just bought a bunch of books tonight, I don't think I will get them any time soon. If only I could quit my job long ... ... now it's been about ten years since that period. I think it's one SO as the winner in the last eleven years.
Brasyl, Halting State and Rollback all have a near-future tone. I consider Halting State to be Charles Stross' best since Accelerando. It succeeds at SF's hardest job these days, convincing, near-future extrapolation that manages not to be scooped by the real world before its publication. It recalls, for me anyway, the sense I had reading the stories that ... ... Pyr)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog Oct. 2006-Jan/Feb. 2007)
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor)
Halting State by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit) ... 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. 66. Augustus: the Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt 5/5
67. Halting State by Charles Stross 3/5
Very interesting material but marred by poor writing.
68. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll 5/5 5. Halting State by Charles Stross
Count me impressed. It's a near-future techno thriller that gets all the details right. As an on-again, off-again coder myself, I'm impressed by the accuracy of the jargon. It isn't just technobabble; this really is a possible future.
If anything, ... ... of the Mind", By Right of Conquest, Tea with the Black Dragon, Bulfinch's Mythology, Murder on the Leviathan, Halting State. Currently I am read Halting State great book so far about 3/4 of the way thorough it now hopping to finish by this weekend. Last week I finished Neuromancer my first real foray in cyberpunk and loved it so I pickup the mirrorshades the other day so I think read that one next. #11
Halting State is great. However it isn't out as a paperback yet in the US, and not out at all in the UK. It is released in trade paperback in a week or two's time in the UK. ... wouldn't mind Betrayal, but I'm pretty sure not many people would want to go with a Star Wars series book.
What about Halting State by Charles Stross? In approximate order of my enthusiasm:
1. Blindsight, Peter Watts
2. In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
3. Halting State, Charles Stross; his best since Accelerando.
4. Brasyl, Iain MacDonald
5. Dark Universe, Daniel F. Galouye; from 1961. Terrific for its day, ... ... by Brian Aldiss
The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter - a YA book which is shorter and pacier than his usual fare.
Halting State by Charlie Stross.
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
Sorry about the missing touchstones - a couple of authors gave problems and The H-Bomb Girl ... ... William Shatner, Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, and Larry Niven's Ringworld Throne.
I started reading Halting State, by Charles Stross, but didn't get far due to difficult language. The story line seems interesting, but it takes place in Scotland, using much of what I ... ... for second person just that the protagonist (or other main character) is referred to in the second person. For example in Halting State there are multiple second-person viewpoints - one of them is a male computer hacker, one of them is a female financial auditor. It is quite clear that they ... Just finished The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton, Halting State by Charles Stross and The Sunrise Lands by S. M. Stirling. I always enjoy Hamilton, the Stross was OK, but no Accelerando, and the Stirling was almost unreadable. Just got Stirling's short story collection, Ice, ... Charlie Stross's new book Halting State is a multiple second person narrative. ... with the Brazilian words in the book. I thought it was with In War Times one of the best reads so far this year.
Halting State is so different to Glasshouse that it is difficult to compare. I don't think it is Charlie's best SF book (and some have really struggled to come to terms ... ... not make the ballot (A Betrayal in Winter this year), but I think is worth the accolade. I don't know if I will push Halting State. I really loved Glasshouse. I can't imagine something better than that. The Prefect might not make it either, but it's better than most everything else ... Have you read Brasyl by Ian McDonald? Definitely one of my picks
I think Halting State will make it - which I see from another post you have on your to read list.
I would agree with In War Times but relegate The Prefect into a group of maybes along with Cowboy Angels by Paul M ... ... Charles Wilson. I have The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton, Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch, Halting State by Charles Stross and The Sunrise Lands by S. M. Stirling to finish by Thanksgiving. I need to start making my picks for the 2008 Hugo panel at Losc ... I started Halting State by Charlie Stross last night. Very good, very fast moving, written using multiple second person viewpoints, and I very nearly finished the same night. Definitely recommended.
It is a near-future story which starts with a bank-robbery and the local Edinburgh polis ... ... Angels)
Further afield there is a new Rudy Rucker novel (Postsingular) and a new Charlie Stross novel (Halting State) for later on this year.
No touchstone for The H-Bomb Girl (maybe the hyphen throws it off) and no touchstone for Postsingular as no-one as entered a copy ... bluetyson at 2: One of the Readercon panel topics recently posted references Stross' problem with pre-obsolescence of Halting State.
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