recently finished cryptonomicon which is hard to believe is the work of just one person. also read the baroque cycle, and loved it.Has anyone read Neal Stephenson? i picked up Quicksilver the other day but deferred reading it
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recently finished cryptonomicon which is hard to believe is the work of just one person. also read the baroque cycle, and loved it.Has anyone read Neal Stephenson? i picked up Quicksilver the other day but deferred reading it
Read Hyperion if you want a good start, it follows all the usual sci-fi norms of big space battles etc etc, but reads like literature. Amazing book.
finished Hyperion a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it...thanks for the tip. It took me 2 attempts to read this as I wasn't taken by it the first time around, but gave it another go (thankfully).
I particularily liked the priest's and detective's story in...but
I was slightly disappointed with the ending. I wanted a bit more closure regarding the pilgramige and the imminent ouster attack
Will check out the rest of the series next...anyone read them ?
Apparently they are making the film also
The Fall of Hyperion deals with what's in your spoiler comment. It follows directly on from the first book.
The events in the Endymion books take place some years later. I didn't like these the first time I read them but I read all the books again recently and really enjoyed them. I think I left too much of a gap between reading the Hyperion books and the Endymion books the first time around.
sci-fi quiz : http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2011/may/12/science-fiction-facts-quiz
I got 2 out of 10 and one of those was a guess
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