All Systems Red by Martha Wells. A wonderful SciFi novella. One of her Muderbot Diaries. An afternoon and evening well spent. Intrigue and action as a planetary survey team runs into trouble on a newly discovered planet.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells. A wonderful SciFi novella. One of her Muderbot Diaries. An afternoon and evening well spent. Intrigue and action as a planetary survey team runs into trouble on a newly discovered planet.
I checked it out of the library.I read the the first couple of Murderbot books and they were a lot of fun, but they're really expensive for what you get in terms of length. Wish they'd release a compilation at normal book prices instead of novellas.
John Brunner? I have those in my library (have had them for decades) but never got around to reading them.Finally finished Earth Abides, which ended pretty much as I expected it would.
Now on a (re?)read of Stand On Zanzibar (anything to stretch out the 'new' books I've acquired over the past year but not yet read, a little bit longer...!).
SoZ is Brunner, yes. The writing style is very much of its era of late-60s SF (you know, where despite the book being set multiple decades later, somehow the slang and 'tudes haven't, like, changed all that much, maaan...).John Brunner? I have those in my library (have had them for decades) but never got around to reading them.
Ah, okay. One of my favorite Robert Silverberg novels has a race/misogyny aspect that doesn't fly today as it did in the '60s. I used to run a Time Travel Novels group on Yahoo and one woman refused to finish this book (Up the Line) and thought Silverberg was an awful person.SoZ is Brunner, yes. The writing style is very much of its era of late-60s SF (you know, where despite the book being set multiple decades later, somehow the slang and 'tudes haven't, like, changed all that much, maaan...).
EA is by George R Stewart. It doesn't depict its catastrophe quite as cosily as, say, Wyndham, but the writing is rather better: bit like Bradbury, if you like his style of small-town Americana.
Very much liked Q, have reread it several times.Ended Q, by Luther Blisset
Erratic book, there were parts which I enjoyed a lot and other ones that were hard to read.
It may be because Luther Blisset is a multiple use name and the book was written by several authors, so the pace and the writting style changes during the book.
Starting The Martian by Andy Weir
May I also recommend his earlier work, Casey and Andy?Starting The Martian by Andy Weir