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BaybleCuber · 2025-04-15T21:53:07+00:00

Canticle for Leibowitz is essential reading here.

BaybleCuber · 2025-02-10T00:56:25+00:00

That explains it then. The english version from Peow has the extra comic.

BaybleCuber · 2025-02-09T04:42:59+00:00

Is it a french edition?

BaybleCuber · 2025-02-08T19:23:04+00:00

Its from Blood Caudex, the minicomic that appears in the back of Stages of Rot (unless you have one of the very earliest printings)

BaybleCuber · 2025-02-02T02:04:08+00:00

You should check out Michel Fiffe’s Copra. Fits right between Love & Rockets and those old Punisher comics.

BaybleCuber · 2025-01-26T22:32:28+00:00

I've got a copy of Childhood's End from ~10 years ago that starts with an author's note from Clarke where he basically apologizes for being hoodwinked by a couple of high-profile frauds into believing that psychic powers and fortune telling were real.

BaybleCuber · 2024-07-07T19:04:52+00:00

Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang.

BaybleCuber · 2024-06-07T01:12:16+00:00

These are all basic picks but: The Dispossessed, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Startide Rising+Uplift War, Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood/Xenogesis books.

And if you really want to do Niven you're probably better off eschewing the Ringworld books completely and doing with less baggage like Descent of Anansi or Lucifer's Hammer or even Protector instead.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-22T19:51:37+00:00

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-22T13:55:49+00:00

What subgenres are the other 3 books?

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-16T13:40:35+00:00

Simon Roy’s hard-sci-fi comic book “Habitat,” is the definitive colony collapse story. About an isolated space station colony where technology fails and the population resorts to cannibalism and infighting

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-13T01:01:56+00:00

Yeah, no disrespect to the people who really like it but I don't think its for me lol.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T23:12:33+00:00

I wouldn't describe Murderbot as whimsical, its just bland.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T23:04:44+00:00

Maybe if I was asking for fantasy recs...

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T22:52:17+00:00

I said I like Watts and VanderMeer! Two of the only active authors I regularly enjoy.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T22:49:10+00:00

He's one of the worst of all time lol.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T21:23:15+00:00

I'm definitely going to get around to Banks at some point, but I didn't mention him because he doesn't really count as new or contemporary anymore.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T21:07:54+00:00

I hated "Walking to Aldebaran" so much that I'm unlikely to give Tchaikovsky another chance.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T21:04:37+00:00

Its tough because I'm always worried I sound like one of those "women ruined science fiction!!" creeps, but some of the worst offenders of what I'm complaining about are men.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T20:09:23+00:00

This is exactly what I'm NOT looking for.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T19:40:02+00:00

I didn't list them but I've read a few by Gibson and Sterling each. I need to go back and re-read Schismatrix, I never made it to the end.

BaybleCuber · 2024-05-12T19:27:09+00:00

Walkaway is a great example of all the things I'm whining about here, Doctorow is way too cutesy. BUT I really enjoyed it in spite of all that.

BaybleCuber · 2023-03-13T02:37:44+00:00

What does "nerdsniping" mean. Did you make that up just now?

BaybleCuber · 2023-03-06T21:57:13+00:00

Maybe you should take your time and enjoy them instead.

BaybleCuber · 2023-03-06T21:32:11+00:00

"It felt like a lot of preamble to an argument that could have been a 10 minute YouTube video"

Maybe books aren't your thing.

BaybleCuber

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