That movie was phenomenal, but I like to give Robin William's the credit for that because he put all he could into acting the part. I didn't know that Matheson wrote that, but I shouldn't be surprised. I'll probably have to pick that one up too. Thanks for the suggestion!
Finally finished Richard Morgan's epic trilogy - Altered Carbon; Broken Angels; Woken Furies. Not totally like the Netflix series, but enough in there to understand where it comes from, although haven't seen the second series yet. I haven't quite finished Ancillary Justice yet, so to finish that, a few short stories in-between, and then to Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself, finally. I know, I've been slacking.
I am rereading Foucault's Pendulum. Idk. I haven't really run out of books to read. I just need a comfort object to cuddle in the muddy drippy season of zero sunshine. -SIN
Having finally finished Rome: The Eternal City, I have moved on to Proxima by Stephen Baxter, and Invisible Romans by Robert Knapp.
I bought Proxima this past Christmas, haven't got around to looking at it yet. Good reviews on Amazon so hopefully it lives up to it.
I bought the Mars trilogy for a penny on-line + £15.99 p +p - unless I chose to enter the Amazon Re-education programmme of PRIME [evil]. No way am I falling for that. Nobody's watching me masturbate. I read the first chapter. Only ten thousand million words to go. Possibly my last book? It's a bit 'cheap,' [naff] hardly literererary, more of a #Moose book y'know? No offense.
Is that the Kim Stanley Robinson Mars Trilogy? Reading genre Mat? Shocking! Actually I'd never heard of him, and me calling myself a sci-fi reader. Yeah, you have to watch the third party postage ; still have had quite a few deals on second hand books over the years - he says heading over to the Amazon page of Kim Stanley Robinson books...
Hi, no it’s the Kim..guy... I’m hoping to immerse during the 12 hr shifts...some escapism...and keep off the ‘phone. It’s already‘under my skin’ so should be fun.
Hmm, I tend to count trilogies as a single book, so the count is kind of off. In no particular order: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. In Conquest Born by C.S. Friedman The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) by William Gibson Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks The first three books of the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe, and Everything) 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein So that's either fifteen books in my top ten counted individually, or nine if you lump trilogies together (ignoring the fact that THGTTG has five books in its "trilogy," but only three that I really like). Douglas Adams would be proud of my math skillz, I think. ETA: I could try and slot Lovecraft in there somewhere, but he was a terrible writer. An amazing idea man whose work resonates down through time, but he's kind of like the composer plinking something out on a piano vs the virtuoso orchestra that ends up playing the piece to a crowded concert hall.
Colony - Ben Bova KPax (trilogy) Gene Brewer Contest- Mathew Reilly The first 8 Deathlands books ( I know they're more post apoc than true Scifi) Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham The Moon is a harsh mistress - Heinlein The old mans war trilogy - John Scalzi A robot named clunk - Simon Haynes The Dirk Gently detective agency - Douglas Adams Half head - Stuart McBride The martian - Andy Weir
I usually like to add China Melville's Embassytown to that list as well, and sometimes M. John Harrison's Light.
Thanks for your list. I've read some Heinlein, especially All You Zombie's, which got made into a decent film. I started reading Consider Phlebus by Banks but I got bogged down and stopped, not quite sure why now. Maybe I'll return to it. Definitely have Gibson for future reading. What about Neal Stephenson, I have him on my list to read? Thanks for your list too. I think I read Reilly once, long time back, can't remember what I thought about it. Totally agree with you on The Martian. Is the KPax book the one the film was based on? Never got on with Mieville, bit too weird for me, but good writer.
Not sure what my list would include. I read a lot of Asimov earlier in life, brilliant ideas but the fact that he was also a scientist seemed to come across in his writing, and I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing. Philip K Dick was good, so too Clarke but his work never stuck for me. Just finished Morgan, which was good, and Hamilton is brilliant at world building. Also liked James S A Corey, but haven't got around to his second. I've read a lot of shorts; Ken Lui, Ted Chiang, Bacigalupi. Perhaps my list is still being formed.
Yeah, you remember that guy because, well, what a name. And Windup Girl was good. Have you ever read Stephenson?
Am I too late? I want to do my top ten sci-fi too. (And yeah, mine includes trilogies and series as well.) In no particular order: MaddAddam Trilogy, especially Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick Hitchhiker's Guide (obviously) - Douglas Adams Chocky - John Wyndham Year Zero - Robert Reid Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card 14 - Peter Clines Ready Player One - Ernest Cline The Bobiverse Trilogy - Dennis E. Taylor Honorable mentions: Fahrenheit 451, 11.22.63, The Girl With All the Gifts, World War Z, The Time Traveler's Wife, Watchers, Slaughter House Five
I'm on Chapter Four of Labour MP David Lammy's new book, just released a couple of days ago. Called Tribes. Its excellent. Non-fiction discussion about tribalism in all its forms, how it operates in today's political climate, and why it exists.
The Windup Girl was great, but I'm not enjoying The Doubt Factory so much. His YA is not strong. At least this on isn't.
We're doing top 10 Sci-Fi books and series? Don't mind if I do! Without any particular order, rhyme or reason: The Stars My Destination/Tiger! Tiger! by Alfred Bester The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons The Forever War by Joe Haldeman The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe The Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson Hm. Turns out that maybe I haven't read nearly as much Sci-Fi as I've lead myself to believe. It'll have to be a top 5 from me.
