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It was really good! But now I need another book. What's out there? I normally alternate between Jack Reacher books and..er...Jack Reacher books haha. So nothing too clever then! 😉
I liked it too. Ice Henge by Kim Stanley Robinson is a shortish sci-fi novel that I think is a good introduction to some of his longer stuff - Red Mars etc...
If you liked the thinky bits try Cryptominicon
Something a little different that's sort of sci-fi, sort of not. Sort of dystopian future, sort of not. Sort of comedy, sort of not. Am far from sure what it actually is, genre-wise, but I know that it's a very good read.
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The ‘Standard Variable’ procedure was in place to allow minor changes of the Rules. The most obvious example was the ‘Children under ten are to be given a glass of milk and a smack at 11 a.m.’ rule, which for almost two hundred years was interpreted as the literal Word of Munsell, and children were given a glass of milk, anf then clipped around the ear. It took a brave Prefect to point out – tactfully, of course – that this was doubtless a spelling mistake, and should have read ‘snack’. It was blamed on a scribe’s error rather than Rule Fallibility and the Variable was adopted. Most loopholes and Leapback circumvention were based on Standard Variables. Another good example would be the train we were riding on now. Although ‘The Railways’ had been banned during Leapback III, a wily travel officer had postulated that a singular railway was still allowable – hence the gyro-stabilised inverted monorail in current usage. It was loopholery at its very best.
I just read Existence by David Brin. Great idea and interesting book but too many characters and weird pacing.
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Stone-Man-Science-Thriller-ebook/dp/B00AHJIJF2 ]The Stone Man[/url] was absolutely gripping for me.
Keep em ' coming, I'm almost finished reading The Martian too 😀
Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel really enjoyed it, not your usual end of the world book, no zombies!
Just finished it on Monday.
Then read The Humans by Matt Haig, funny look at the absurdities of social norms.
+1 for the stone man. Read it straight after the Martian and found it just as well written and well paced.
extinction point also good. A little like war of the worlds
What's the best Mars books you have read?
[b]DO NOT READ SHADES OF GREY![/b]
It's the first part of a trilogy. It's a great read ... but in 5 years, he hasn't started the second book! Talk about frustrating!
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+1 for the stone man. Read it straight after the Martian and found it just as well written and well paced.
extinction point also good. A little like war of the worlds
Annoyingly, I can't get this book on my Kobo. I'm guessing its exclusive to Amazon...