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MacLeod's Fall Revolution series (Star Fraction, Stone Canal, Cassini Division, Sky Road)
Wright's Golden Age series.
Morgan's Altered Carbon stories.
Do The Culture novels count as a series?
Oh, and Brin's Uplift series, well the first few anyway. ... son)
The Golden Age / Phoenix Exultant / Golden Transcendence (Wright)
Blindsight (Watts)
Accelerando (Stross)
The Star Fraction (MacLeod)
Eon (Bear)
Mortal Remains (Evans) Just finished Star Fraction which was complex but superb. Very cyberpunky but political and well written too. Black Man, Richard K. Morgan
Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Use of Weapons, Iain Banks
Life During Wartime, Lucius Shepard
The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
The Second Angel, Philip Kerr
Life*, Gwyneth Jones
Somewh ... ... fire is my current read.
I've got Antartica lined up so I'm glad that's one of his better ones. Anybody know if The Star Fraction by Macleod is any good? I picked it up cheap on a whim after recognising the name from some LT discussions. ... and a (rare for me) hardback - first edition of tripoint were key finds; Jerusalem Fire, the first two Deryni books, The Star Fraction as recomendations from LT sources and a few random ones that appealed - antarctica, a small town in germany, forge of god, the freedom trap, clim ... ... to Ken MacLeod. His Fall Revolution series is a particularly good.
From his Introduction to the American edition of The Star Fraction (Book 1 of Fall Revolution):One constraints on the possible arrangements of a future society was indicated by the Austrian economist Ludwig ... As of yet haven't found more Kate Fforde, may have to go to a non-used bookstore for that. Boo.
Finished The Star Fraction just now. Insane. Amazing. Made me want to go buy a knee-length brown distressed leather jacket, I don't really know why. Actually not confusing, for speculative fiction, ... ... of the wily salve Yaotl.
Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie - a journey through the North of England.
Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod - a dystopian vision of a future England.
Genghis Khan by John Man - excellent introduction to the man & legend that is Genghis Kha ... ... Reynolds is not much of a stylist, but he's good on ideas and atmosphere.
I loved Ken MacLeods first three novels - The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal and The Cassini Division - but nothing of his has yet to match them.
I've enjoyed Ian McDonald's stuff, although I've not read ... Things like the microcommunites in The Star Fraction to the two timestream looks in The Sky Road.
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