excession is OK...but the original first three Culture books are awesome - Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and the Player of Games.
Genuinely special. Read immediately!
(Genuinely special. Read immediately!
chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist,
Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:29,
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as below,I like the books about ships as they are a lot more morally ambiguous than the others. I guess sociologically, they seem to be a (accurate) extrapolation of our cultures, but I love the ships. Anything with a name like "fate amenable to change" and "ethics gradient" are friends of mine.
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Alfie,
Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:31,
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i think you should both readBruce Sterling's Schismatrix. the whole time i was reading excession i was thinking, "this is good, but nowhere near as good as schismatrix"
( freshlegs,
Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:47,
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I love Sterling...top man.
Returning to where this started... I loved Cryptonomicon. Really blew me away.
(Returning to where this started... I loved Cryptonomicon. Really blew me away.
chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist,
Thu 14 Nov 2002, 20:05,
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