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... Dome
Eat Sleep Sit (aka 食う寝る坐る永平寺修行記 (新潮文庫) -- English touchstone didn't want to work.)
River of Gods
The Atrocity Archives
The Jennifer Morgue
The City and The City
Wicked Plants
The Dangerous World of Butterflies ... for me.
In no particular order:
Cyteen by CJ Cherryh
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran.
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade
Maps of Time by David Christian
... challenging (I'm still not sure I understood it all), I found this novel quite gripping, if a little bit frustrating.
River of Gods by Ian McDonald (I see his later novel Brasyl recommended above) is supposed to be one of the most entertaining SF novels of recent years. I bought a copy ... ... page on the Pyr website gives a bit more detail. The stories are in the same setting as his novel River Of Gods. ... the nominate five, then second another nomination later thing?
If yes, here's my five...
The Accord, Keith Brooke
River of Gods, Ian McDonald
Hello Summer, Goodbye, Michael Coney
Roadside Picnic, Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
Neuromancer, William Gibson
... so much these days. Still, I need to catch up a bit, so here goes:
19. Brasyl by Ian McDonald (405 pp.)
I loved River of Gods and was looking forward to this one. Brasyl is divided into 8 chapters, each one further subdivided into 3 eras, all set in Brazil - the present (2006) and ... ... Days ? by Ian McDonald ?that's what i found @ Amazon - and would be happy to order a new book. I've liked McDonald's River of Gods and Brasyl a lot so that's a good suggestion by me. ... exceptions to this) are conspicuously pale. Ian McDonald, therefore, deserves kudos for examining a future India in River of Gods and Cyberabad Days, and especially for doing it so well. Cyberabad Days is a collection of seven longish short stories in which McDonald demonstrates that ... I have River of Gods but haven't read it yet. I've always liked McDonald's books, although I stopped reading them for a while for some reason.
Have you tried Liz Williams? I've heard she's quite good. ... .
I think that as the series went on it got quite a bit weaker but the first book is worth reading. You should also read River Of Gods btw it does a great job at conveying the vividness and energy of a future India. ... I've had to remove a few from my list because I've not reread them recently - or even read them at all in the case of River of Gods.
Black Man, Richard Morgan (read Mar 2008)
Light, M John Harrison (read Feb 2003)
The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod (read Apr 2007)
Red Mars, Ki ... ... (stupid touchstone doesn't work)
Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland
Voyage, Stephen Baxter
Kéthani, Eric Brown
River of Gods, Ian McDonald
The Difference Engine, Bruce Sterling & William Gibson
Ian McDonald is doing a kind of around the world SF tour. Brazil, India, Africa. I liked River of Gods but for non-SF readers who aren't familiar with the different Artificial Intelligence tropes it can be confusing. I've seen that complaint. Tendeleo's Story (Africa) is probably my ... ... is somewhat dense reading, but is fascinating.
Visible Ghost--Along with Confessions of a Thug, I have just started River of Gods. Did you like it?
As I think about it, Confessions of a Thug is mid-19th Century India, The Raj Quartet is mid-20th Century India, and River of Gods ... ... lineup of non-Indian authors writing about India for you? ;-) Passage to India, A Jewel in the Crown, Shantaram, and River of Gods. They cover India in the early 20th century, mid-20th century, late 20th century and mid-21st century. All by non-Indians trying to describe India. The latter ... I'm time traveling between India in the mid-1800's in Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor and India in 2047 in River of Gods by Ian McDonald. ... Swedish police detective.
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
SF, short story collection. Set in the same future India as River of Gods
King's Fool by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Historical fiction, republished. Set in Tudor England, in the court of King Henry VIII. The POV is is fool, ... ... by Gregory Benford
Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
... Replay by Ken Grimwood. Currently reading The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson and will probably start River of Gods by Ian McDonald or The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt next. ... Queen
Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis
The Five Silver Buddhas by Harry Keeler
Saturn's Child by Nichelle Nichols
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
... "science fiction" meaning.
ETA: Brasyl was amazing and wonderful and a worthy follow-on to the delights of River of Gods but I think The Yiddish Policeman's Union was a really good example of alternate history. So maybe it should win the Sidewise Award. Not the Hugo, IMO. ... shel Aldebaran : Dan Zalka
The Time Machine : H. G. Wells
Omega : Cammille Flammarion
Sideshow : Sheri S. Tepper
River of Gods : Ian McDonald
Invitation to a Beheading : Vladimir Nabokov
Solaris : Stanislaw Lem
Tatja Grimm’s World : Vernor Vinge
Before Adam : Jack London ... ... by Connie Willis
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Seeker by Jack McDevitt
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Take ... ... – Keith Roberts
4) The Earthsea Trilogy – Urusla K. LeGuin (one entry, don’t care if it’s cheatimg or not)
5) River of Gods – Ian McDonald
6) The Summer Isles – I an R. MacLeod
7) The Man Who Folded Himself – David Gerrold
8) The Moon is s Harsh Mistress – Rob ... Last night I tried to start River of Gods. This came with many very good recommendations here. The idea was interesting, but it was way too sci-fi-ey for me. I only got about 40 pages in but I was still very confused. I prefer my sci-fi with less complicated science. Oh well. I might try ... ... author who is a friend of mine.
Bring the Noise – Got a free prerelease copy which seemed interesting and it is.
River of Gods – Was the topic of a book club meeting, though I didn't manage to read it before hand.
A Good Old-Fashioned Future – Got it as a gift for some reason. ... ... Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper
3. Most of Lois McMaster Bujold, especially Ethan of Athos
4. River of Gods, all gazillion pages of it
5. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, one of Heinlein's all-time tip-top rip-snortin' reads andyl #29,
I suspect River of Gods does not count, because
-Spoiler Warning-
its post-Singular AI's are outside what we can now be pretty sure of in forseeable computer development, and their manipulation of time ever more so in physics.
IIRC, Gregory Frost's story andyl in Science Fiction Fans : The Mundane Movement in Science Fiction (May 4, 2008, 5:54am) ... 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 that PKD and Gene Wolfe "may ... ... in the book.
Having said all that I don't think it is deserving of a Hugo. It is too light a book.
I voted for River Of Gods as my number one choice in Glasgow and although I didn't vote last year I did pick out Glasshouse as my choice. This year it has to be Brasyl.
I agree ... ... what piece is actually nominated and not how I feel about the writers and their oeuvre personally. That said, I agree that River of Gods was much better than Brasyl, but I voted River of Gods first and was overruled by the rest of the Hugo voters.
Rollover is unreadable, The Yiddish Po ... 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. >20
River of Gods won a BSFA award too, for Best Novel 2004. >19 Hooray for Ian. He's a nice guy and deserves it, though more for River of Gods than Brasyl. ... praise for Alastair Reynolds, Kage Baker, Kathleen Ann Goonan (especially her latest), Ian McDonald (try River of Gods first, not Brasyl), Richard K. Morgan, Karl Schroeder, and Charles Stross. Chris Moriarty is quite good, but a bit uneven.
Peter Watts ... ... books The Great Hedge Of India, Flashman And The Mountain Of Light and The Calcutta Chromosome. It does not find River Of Gods which also has India in the subjects nor did it find Midnight's Children or Flashman and the Angel of the Lord.
BTW - I did do a reindex before ... ... I read in 2007, but my 5 English-language stand-outs - at least from what I remember - were (in no particular order):
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
both Ghostwritten and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa ... I'll go with Eifelheim, though I wouldn't cry if River of Gods was chosen. I could definitely get behind Eifelheim or River of Gods
I also 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? ... for availability in the US) - if the touchstones work you can look up the reviews and amazon descriptions pretty easily.
River Of Gods by Ian McDonald.
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
Pushing Ice or Century Rain by Alisatair Reynolds. Both good books - I like Century Rain the better ... ... Stross
Thirteen - Richard K. Morgan
Market Forces - Richard K. Morgan
Woken Furies - Richard K. Morgan
River of Gods - Ian McDonald
Really happy to have discovered Morgan, as I'm sure you've guessed :) Currently trying to finish River of Gods by Ian McDonald, which I've been stuck on for a month or so now. It's very good, but I keep getting sidetracked.
I just finished Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock. I liked it a lot, and I have a feeling I'll like it more and more with each ... Yes, I read Brasyl when it first came out. I even did a review of it on LT. I was intensely fond of River of Gods, my number one pick for a Hugo that year. In contrast, Brasyl could just not hold my attention.
I certainly pick at least one novel that I know will not make the ballot (A B ... Just picked up Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock. Also still trying to work my way through River of Gods by Ian McDonald. I'm currently working on River of Gods by Ian McDonald, and liking it quite a bit. #67
Sixty Days And Counting was pretty good but not the best of the Capital Code series.
River Of Gods was superb - it was my first choice for the Hugo in 2005.
I have just finished The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter and The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman.
I have ... Still got to get to River Of Gods. I have Elizabeth Bear's Undertow, and Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson ... SF.
From the year 2000 it has been awarded to Ash: A Secret History, Chasm City, The Separation, Felaheen, River of Gods, Air, or, Have Not Have, and End of the World Blues.
Of course the small number of voters could be the few who appreciate such books. However they are, ... ... tracing three timelines, past, preset and near-future which will come together somehow I imagine. It's a lot shorter than River of Gods which featured India. It's published by Pyr who is picking up some good stuff.
Eifelheim is tracking two time lines, recent and 1300s Western Europe. So ... ... acLeod
More sci-fi short stories. Again, I want this collection so that I can read a particular story, The Summer Isles.
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Science Fiction set in a near-future India.
River of Gods is on my to-read pile, got it a couple of months back. I'll have to look into Vikram Chandra's books, thanks for the tip.
I just found a link to an interesting looking discussion thread at SFFWorld.com, maybe we'll find some good suggestions there: http://www.sffworld.com/forums/s ... ... Air
A Deepness In The Sky
Declare
Gridlinked and some of the rest of the Neal Asher polity universe stuff.
River Of Gods
Bold As Love and sequels
Pashazade and the sequels. I would also include Stamping Butterflies by JCG as well.
The Separation
Century Rain and C ...
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