Cassie - Sci Fi Reading list please

[CaptainWacky]

I think the just wrote The Lost World so they could make another movie and he could make more money and he didn't really want to write it? Isn't there a really awkward bit where someone says "hey, Ian Malcolm, didn't you die in the first book?" and he sais "YEAH BUT EVERYONE LOVED JEFF GOLDBLUM IN THE MOVIE!"?

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Yeah, the first book makes it pretty clear that Malcolm dies. He gets a compound fracture, raptors break into the building, the island is bombed by the airforce and everyone pretends it never existed.

Book 2, he has a bit of a limp.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Chaos Theory states that sometimes people must survive getting eaten by raptors and bombed by the air force.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Continuing with Michael Crichton I read The Andromeda Strain the other day. A lot of people on Goodreads complained about the amount of science porn, but I thought it was all very well explained and interesting, so there. It does have an extremely abrupt ending, though, making it feel like half a book.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I'm reading Leviathan Wakes which is the first book in the Expanse series (there's four so far?) It's a good, easy read. Science fiction but not "hard science" like some things I read (which I like too!) which makes it quicker to get through. There's going to be a tv series on SyFy later this year.

 

[headvoid]

I'm taking in Vernor Vinge "A fire in the Deep" to my little room next week. The full volume so I shall report back.

 

[CaptainWacky]

SOUNDS INTERESTING.

Did you ever finish The Stormlight Archives?

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Wacky, do you remember me recommending Leviathan Wakes last year (or possibly the year before)? I've read the first first three and they're all pretty good, in a sort of watered down Firefly kinda way. I've read some off-putting reviews of the latest one, so I'm giving that a miss for a while, but looking forward to the series.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Oh and because I now obsessively state which book I'm reading whether it's scifi or not, I'm currently reading The Woods by Harlan Coben, which is free on the iBook store and probably others and is a very good murder mystery so far. It's a page turner to almost the same degree as The da Vinci Code, but it's intelligently written.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Wacky, do you remember me recommending Leviathan Wakes last year (or possibly the year before)? I've read the first first three and they're all pretty good, in a sort of watered down Firefly kinda way. I've read some off-putting reviews of the latest one, so I'm giving that a miss for a while, but looking forward to the series.

FUNNY STORY: I remembered you recommending something with "Leviathan" in the title and I always vaguely wanted to look up what it was, but I think I downloaded this because it was the Amazon Daily Deal without actually making the connection. Then at some point I thought "isn't this the thing Fuddlemiff was talking about?" So I thought if I mentioned it in this thread you'd confirm if it was the thing you'd read and I wouldn't have to ask you straightout or just read old posts in the thread to find out. But I'll claim that you're subconsciously responsible.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I'll accept that.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The moral is: always download books right away instead of waiting until you only vaguely remember them.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I FINALLY STARTED READING SNOW CRASH. I like it a lot so far. Are you proud of me, Cassie?

 

[headvoid]

I read World War Z recently.

I found it a concept book that actually worked! Too many times I have read concept books (mainly booker list type things) that have a boy trapped in a room talking to himself and in the end he turns out to be a computer in a coma that wants to be a carrot or something. I hate concept books.

World War Z was an easy read that rattled along and had the feel of a compendium of short stories. I hate compendiums of short stories.

So, a book that tried to be everything I hate that I actually enjoyed.

NEXT: Fire in the Deep - Vernor Vinge

 

[FBI parte due]

I remember A Fire Upon the Deep being pretty fun. Just Vernor Vinge throwing a whole bunch of Vernor Vinge ideas together.

I also remember the time in middle school when I thought it'd be a good idea to recite as a speech one of the threatening message-board postings from a bunch of butterfly-like aliens that featured in the book. It was not my best year. (It was part of an assignment, though, I SWEAR.)

 

[headvoid]

The butterfly aliens are pretty fuckin scary. Getting that threatening menace across in a classroom may have been a big ask.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I want to read that computer boy coma carrot book now...

 

[CaptainWacky]

Sushi K's rap is the best rap ever.

I'm Sushi K and I'm here to say
I like to rap in a different way

Look out Number One in every city
Sushi K rap has all most pretty

My special talking of remarkable words
Is not the sterotyped bucktooth nerd

My hair is big as a galaxy
Cause I attain greater technology

I like to rap about sweetened romance
My fond ambition is of your pants

So here is of special remarkable way
Of this fellow raps named Sushi K

The Nipponese talking phenomenon
Like samurai sword his sharpened tongue

Who raps the East Asia and the Pacific
Prosperity Sphere, to be specific

Sarariman on subway listen
For Sushi K like nuclear fission

Fire breathing lizard Gojiro
He my always big-time hero

His mutant rap burn down whole block
Start investing now Sushi K stock

It on Nikkei stock exchange
Waxes; other rappers wane

Best investment, make my day
Corporation Sushi K

Coming to America now
Rappers trying to start a row

Say "Stay in Japan, please, listen!
We can't handle competition!"

U.S. rappers booin' and hissin'
Ask for rap protectionism

They afraid of Sushi K
Cause their audience go away

He got chill financial backin'
Give those U.S. rappers a smackin'

Sushi K concert machine
Fast efficient super clean

Run like clockwork in a watch
Kick old rappers in the crotch

He learn English total immersion
English/Japanese be mergin'

Into super combination
So can have fans in every nation

Hong Kong they speak English too
Yearn of rappers just like you

Anglophones who live down under
Sooner later start to wonder

When they get their own rap star
Tired of rappers from afar

So I will get big radio traffic
When you look at demographic

Sushi K research statistic
Make big future look ballistic

Speed of Sushi K growth stock
Put U.S. rappers into shock

 

[CaptainWacky]

I liked Snow Crash but thought the end was a bit abrupt.

I'm readng The Diamond Age now.

 

[Cassie]

SQUEEE!!11 (sorry)

I loved The Diamond Age more than Snow Crash.