What are you reading now?
I recently finishedThe Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's a first novel and has kind of made a splash in the SF world - seen to be breaking new ground - in the way writers like Charles Stross and Neal Stephenson did in their early novels - imagining our data infused world projected way into the future. We're living in a SF world already - The Quantum Thief recognises that, and pushes things that much further out - dealing with things like data copies of entire human minds, "exo-memory" (memories freely shared between the public) and privacy in a future where all thought is as easily shared as we now share blogs posts. It's a great imagining book and I recommend it to anyone who likes "big idea" science Fiction.
I just started Stephen King's "11/22/63" about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of JFK. I love it when King does science fiction (The Stand, Tommyknockers) because he brings all of that dark, horror mood to it - which makes it rich. I'm only 1/4 of the way through- but I can tell already this book will be like popcorn at the movies- I'll be stuffing big gobs of into my face, and be dissapointed when it's gone.
So ... read any good books lately?
I recently finishedThe Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's a first novel and has kind of made a splash in the SF world - seen to be breaking new ground - in the way writers like Charles Stross and Neal Stephenson did in their early novels - imagining our data infused world projected way into the future. We're living in a SF world already - The Quantum Thief recognises that, and pushes things that much further out - dealing with things like data copies of entire human minds, "exo-memory" (memories freely shared between the public) and privacy in a future where all thought is as easily shared as we now share blogs posts. It's a great imagining book and I recommend it to anyone who likes "big idea" science Fiction.
I just started Stephen King's "11/22/63" about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of JFK. I love it when King does science fiction (The Stand, Tommyknockers) because he brings all of that dark, horror mood to it - which makes it rich. I'm only 1/4 of the way through- but I can tell already this book will be like popcorn at the movies- I'll be stuffing big gobs of into my face, and be dissapointed when it's gone.
So ... read any good books lately?
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