What are you reading?

Traitorfish said:
Finished Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins and Do I Come Here Often by Henry Rollins. Now I'm reading Smile, You're Travelling by Henry Rollins. I'll probably follow it up with either Get in the Van by Henry Rollins, or Eye Scream by Henry Rollins. Henry Rollins? Henry Rollins!
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I rather like Henry Rollins work on political theory Information Overload and Sane Solutions.
 
Can anyone identify this book?: It is science fiction and set, I think, a few hundred years in the future, where humans have nanotechnology and can control the environment around them (get rid of dust in their vicinity; don't have to go to the bathroom, etc). I've only read a small portion of it, but a character recalls a kind of trial that people go through at a certain age when they spend a winter out in the wilderness (living in log cabins), without the luxury of nanotechnology. However, a fire destroys the log cabins, and they have to survive until spring arrives, fighting off a bear at one point. That isn't the plot, though, just a little subplot in a flashback. Does anyone recall anything like this?
 
Engine Summer?
 
Read To Kill A Mockingbird for English class. It was great, and this week we will watch the movie.
 
Mouthwash said:
No, that's not it.
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I found a list of fiction books about nanotechnology:

Spoiler :
1. Nanotech Chronicles by Michael Flynn.
2. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
3. A fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
4. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
5. Prey by Michael Crichton
6. Nanotech by Jack Dann
7. Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan
8. Bloom by Will McCarthy
9. Ventus by Karl Schroeder
10. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
11. Moonwar by Ben Bova
12. The First Immortal: A Novel of the Future by James L Halperin
13. Nano by John Robert Marlow
14. Blood Music by Greg Bear
15. Wellstone by Wil McCarthy
16. The Collapsium by Wil Carthy
17. Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel
18. The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
19. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
20. Forge of Heaven by C.J. Cherryh
21. Hammerfall by C.J. Cherryh
22. Diaspora by Greg Egan
23. Permutation City by Greg Egan
24. I Dora by William Gibson
25. Limit of Vision by Linda Nagata
26. Vast by Linda Nagata
27. Deception Well by Linda Nagata
28. Tech Heaven by Linda Nagata
29. Bohr maker by Linda Nagata
30. Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer
31. Acts of the Apostles by John F.X. Sundman
32. Mississippi Blues by Kathleen Ann Goonan
33. Crescent City Rhapsody by Kathleen Ann Coonan
34. Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
35. The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton
36. Technogenesis by Syne Mitchell
37. Viral Intelligence by Don De Brandt
38. Slant by Greg Bear
39. The Forge of God by Greg Bear
40. Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
41. Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
42. Blood Music by Greg Bear
43. Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
44. Moonrise by Ben Bova
45. Dead Girls, Bead Boys, Bead Things by Richard Calder
46. The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter
47. Immortals by Jack Dann
48. Camelot 30K by Robert L. Forward
49. Moving Mars by Greg Bear


Was it a short story? What decade would it have been written in?
 
timtofly said:
I found a list of fiction books about nanotechnology:

Spoiler :
1. Nanotech Chronicles by Michael Flynn.
2. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
3. A fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
4. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
5. Prey by Michael Crichton
6. Nanotech by Jack Dann
7. Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan
8. Bloom by Will McCarthy
9. Ventus by Karl Schroeder
10. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
11. Moonwar by Ben Bova
12. The First Immortal: A Novel of the Future by James L Halperin
13. Nano by John Robert Marlow
14. Blood Music by Greg Bear
15. Wellstone by Wil McCarthy
16. The Collapsium by Wil Carthy
17. Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel
18. The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
19. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
20. Forge of Heaven by C.J. Cherryh
21. Hammerfall by C.J. Cherryh
22. Diaspora by Greg Egan
23. Permutation City by Greg Egan
24. I Dora by William Gibson
25. Limit of Vision by Linda Nagata
26. Vast by Linda Nagata
27. Deception Well by Linda Nagata
28. Tech Heaven by Linda Nagata
29. Bohr maker by Linda Nagata
30. Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer
31. Acts of the Apostles by John F.X. Sundman
32. Mississippi Blues by Kathleen Ann Goonan
33. Crescent City Rhapsody by Kathleen Ann Coonan
34. Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
35. The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton
36. Technogenesis by Syne Mitchell
37. Viral Intelligence by Don De Brandt
38. Slant by Greg Bear
39. The Forge of God by Greg Bear
40. Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
41. Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
42. Blood Music by Greg Bear
43. Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
44. Moonrise by Ben Bova
45. Dead Girls, Bead Boys, Bead Things by Richard Calder
46. The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter
47. Immortals by Jack Dann
48. Camelot 30K by Robert L. Forward
49. Moving Mars by Greg Bear


Was it a short story? What decade would it have been written in?
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No way. Full-length novel, and fairly long, too. It would have been written either in the 90's or early 2000's. I'll take a look and see if I can find it in your list.
 
Ok, it was Infoquake. Thanks for trying to help, though.
 
I was assigned to read A Tale of Two Cities for school, but it is now one of my favorite books... and I haven't even finished it. It really is fantastic, but that is with class discussion and reading it very slowly.
I want to read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, as I have been greatly enjoying his work recently, but haven't been able to get my grubby mitts on a copy.
 
I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It is an amazing book, and everyone should read it. It was Time's #1 book of 2012, and a New York Times #1 bestseller.
 
John Green as in Crash Course's John Green?
 
I appreciate the username, nerdfighter. Many of my nerdfighter friends have asked me to read the book, but I want to read Looking for Alaska first.
 
Dont we have a thread just like this one in A&E?
 
ork75 said:
I appreciate the username, nerdfighter. Many of my nerdfighter friends have asked me to read the book, but I want to read Looking for Alaska first.
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I was going to, but when I went to my library, it only had TFiOS.
 
Yes! Now we can get 3 times the post count with the same amount of effort!
 
You guys are obsessed with postcount, aren't you? :rolleyes:

ERMAHGERD, I MUST MAKE 15 MORE POSTS TO REACH THE 3000! FAST, WHERE CAN I POST? :p
 
JoanK said:
You guys are obsessed with postcount, aren't you? :rolleyes:

ERMAHGERD, I MUST MAKE 15 MORE POSTS TO REACH THE 3000! FAST, WHERE CAN I POST? :p
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Here? :)
 
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