Comments on: SF Picks http://feliciaday.com/blog/sf-picks Sat, 19 May 2012 04:13:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Floyd Nienhuis http://feliciaday.com/blog/sf-picks#comment-23903 Floyd Nienhuis Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:02:53 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=1242#comment-23903 Nice post. I study something more difficult on totally different blogs everyday. It will always be stimulating to read content from other writers and follow slightly one thing from their store. I’d want to make use of some with the content on my blog whether or not you don’t mind. Natually I’ll provide you with a link in your web blog. Thanks for sharing. Nice post. I study something more difficult on totally different blogs everyday. It will always be stimulating to read content from other writers and follow slightly one thing from their store. I’d want to make use of some with the content on my blog whether or not you don’t mind. Natually I’ll provide you with a link in your web blog. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Steve http://feliciaday.com/blog/sf-picks#comment-16966 Steve Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:26:26 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=1242#comment-16966 Just finished A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge and loved it. Filled with "novel" ;-) ideas of which the implications are explored wonderfully - plus good action and charactors. Thanks all who recommended and Felicia for making the pick! It goes back to the library tonight for the next of the 5 waiting in line. I also enjoyed his Rainbows End, though I did skip a page or two. Also as a result of Felicia's big book blog bash ;-)... I enjoyed Joe Haldeman's Old Twentieth. Though the jacket's synopsis was a little misleading, the ideas were unique and well played. Sorry to say but I couldn't finish Iain Banks' Matter - too slow for my taste and some of the main characters' characters were inconsistent and I just couldn't root for the main protagonist. But I'm still keeping an eye out for his Consider Phlebas anyway. I also recently read Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert. It's almost like the whole thing was one act and what an act it was. Very unique. But next I have a hankering for one of the Noam Chomskys that have been idling on my unread bookcase for years. More scifi will have to wait. Just finished A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge and loved it. Filled with “novel” ;-) ideas of which the implications are explored wonderfully – plus good action and charactors. Thanks all who recommended and Felicia for making the pick! It goes back to the library tonight for the next of the 5 waiting in line. I also enjoyed his Rainbows End, though I did skip a page or two.

Also as a result of Felicia’s big book blog bash ;-) … I enjoyed Joe Haldeman’s Old Twentieth. Though the jacket’s synopsis was a little misleading, the ideas were unique and well played. Sorry to say but I couldn’t finish Iain Banks’ Matter – too slow for my taste and some of the main characters’ characters were inconsistent and I just couldn’t root for the main protagonist. But I’m still keeping an eye out for his Consider Phlebas anyway.

I also recently read Hellstrom’s Hive by Frank Herbert. It’s almost like the whole thing was one act and what an act it was. Very unique.

But next I have a hankering for one of the Noam Chomskys that have been idling on my unread bookcase for years. More scifi will have to wait.

]]> By: John Clark http://feliciaday.com/blog/sf-picks#comment-15960 John Clark Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:17:45 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=1242#comment-15960 I like your book choices. Add these to your 'I'll try to read these sometime' list: 1. The Dream Millenium - James White 2. End as a Hero - Keith Laumer 3. The Complete Venus Equilateral - George O Smith Have fun I like your book choices.

Add these to your ‘I’ll try to read these sometime’ list:

1. The Dream Millenium – James White
2. End as a Hero – Keith Laumer
3. The Complete Venus Equilateral – George O Smith

Have fun

]]> By: Aigars Mahinovs http://feliciaday.com/blog/sf-picks#comment-15932 Aigars Mahinovs Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:07:11 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=1242#comment-15932 About the singularity topic, the best book out there is 'Accelerando' by Charles Stross. You can get that one for free - he released it on Creative Commons, and when you have the stage set with Accelerando (brain uploads, universal manufacturing nanomachines and their impact on the society, ..) then he has a bunch of other very cool books that take place in that post-singularity world. I would love to see the product of Joss and Stross meeting up. About the singularity topic, the best book out there is ‘Accelerando’ by Charles Stross. You can get that one for free – he released it on Creative Commons, and when you have the stage set with Accelerando (brain uploads, universal manufacturing nanomachines and their impact on the society, ..) then he has a bunch of other very cool books that take place in that post-singularity world.

I would love to see the product of Joss and Stross meeting up.

]]> By: elliot http://feliciaday.com/blog/sf-picks#comment-15916 elliot Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:47:04 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=1242#comment-15916 What! That is so exciting! What! That is so exciting!

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