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Has anybody else read Andy Weir's new book, "Project Hail Mary" yet? I'm interested to see what other people thought.
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Aardvark! posted:I'm like 2 chapters in but I'll let you know It is and it isn't, and the points of divergence are what give me mixed feelings about it.
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May 12, 2021 00:06
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After years of not being able to get past the first chapter of the Anethem novel, it randomly popped up on my Audible feed last week and I just finished it up. Totally engrossing once I finally understood the basics of the setting. It's got me all fired up to download more Neal Stephenson audiobooks, because I generally really like his stuff, but holy poo poo can those books be tough to get into. The audio format also makes it way easier to keep tracking the narrative through multi-page segues into philosophy and quantum mechanics.
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Jul 26, 2021 19:00
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Finishing up the audio version of Blindspot by Peter Watts. For anybody else who got lost during the thick "nature of consciousness" monologues in the paperback, the audio format is a whole lot easier to keep pace with.
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Feb 3, 2023 00:10
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Been binging the Red Rising trilogy on Audible over the last week and can’t stop listening. Some of the most entertaining space opera that I’ve read in a long time - solid drama that yanks on the feels and some first-rate action scenes. Would make an amazing steaming miniseries.
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Apr 16, 2023 23:18
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Shnakepup posted:Aurora stuff I loved Aurora. It had a nihilistic yet grounded take on space exploration and colonization that I found really interesting and refreshing. Most scifi tends to just handwave away how utterly alien a new planet would be, regardless of however closely the atmosphere and Goldilocks positions might match Earth. I really liked the ending too; even though Freya ended up back on a (assumed) polluted and over-crowded Earth, it was a Paradise from her perspective when compared to the dying ship.
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May 12, 2023 01:41
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unattended spaghetti posted:Scalzi was never good. I enjoyed Old Man's War, but Red Shirts was just non-stop quips. Reminded me of the worst kind of Joss Wheden script.
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Jun 28, 2023 00:21
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Mikojan posted:I'm on a space opera binge lately and I'm curious if there are any obvious suggestions. Based on what you've read I think you'd get a kick out of the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. It's basically a Red Rising / Dune mash-up. I don't think it's in the same league as either of those series, but it's still super entertaining and has it's own narrative voice.
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