Post AQ6S2DMeoZCgLEcxEW by lawruhl@twit.social
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(DIR) Post #AQ6Qqoode6Sf47iXVg by PadreSJ@twit.social
2022-11-29T12:20:03Z
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Good list.I've got a clean sweep, though I'd probably want to add Slaughterhouse Five, the Bobiverse, the Expanse, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, 20,000 Leagues, Flowers for Algernon.https://booksofbrilliance.com/2022/11/25/the-best-science-fiction-books-of-all-time/
(DIR) Post #AQ6QqpD6BA1kHzA4dU by leo@twit.social
2022-11-29T17:26:23Z
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@PadreSJ After fending off recommendations for many years, I am finally reading the Expanse. It's really good - much better than run of the mill sci-fi. Elevated to the Stephenson/Gibson/Hamilton level of writing. I stopped watching the TV show after a season because it was too claustrophobic. It hewed much closer to the novel than usual TV fare, but the novels are still much better. Really enjoying Leviathan Wakes.
(DIR) Post #AQ6R4HwIfzjT9giwsa by leo@twit.social
2022-11-29T17:28:51Z
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@PadreSJ I agree that everything on the list is great - and like you I've read them all. Nice to see something as new as The Martian on there, but the omissions are huge!Where's the Greg Bear? No Neal Stephenson? No William Gibson??? Bah. This feels like it was written by someone who doesn't like "genre" fiction.
(DIR) Post #AQ6S2DMeoZCgLEcxEW by lawruhl@twit.social
2022-11-29T17:39:34Z
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@leo @PadreSJ the Expanse books actually got me back into reading after many years away. Being going strong ever since. They are strong from beginning to end.
(DIR) Post #AQ6T4F2NfJtA3zfono by danlovejoy@mas.to
2022-11-29T17:51:16Z
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@leo @PadreSJ Fights over the canon are as old as literature. Having said that, I"ll pile on:It's 22 white people, mostly men. To include Card & Crichton then omit Butler, LeGuin, Stephenson, Gibson, is a SciFi crime. Wells and Verne are graded on a curve here as pioneers. The books themselves are not... great. At least not still great. Everyone should read them, yes. But don't mistake pioneering literature for great literature.
(DIR) Post #AQ6UEfSWNwg6rIR5uq by randywidell@twit.social
2022-11-29T18:04:19Z
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@leo @PadreSJ The books are great. The show was…neat technically…but really just felt like a fast paced summary. The end of the book series is so much more satisfying than the end of the show and one of the most satisfying endings to a series I’ve ever read.
(DIR) Post #AQ6VdRDIaRCfs2gu7U by RestlessJim@twit.social
2022-11-29T18:19:30Z
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@leo @PadreSJ I’ve only read the first one so far, but have watched the entire series. The show is great, some of the very best sci-fi ever filmed. But the characters’ motivations and decisions just made so much more sense in the book. People love to say things have to be changed to translate to the screen, and yeah sure, some stuff. But sometimes they alter things that just have me scratching my head, I can’t grok what the changes add.
(DIR) Post #AQ6WWmxLRvfzEPccjY by finickydesert@mastodon.social
2022-11-29T18:30:01Z
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@leoIs is like the 3 body problem? (I haven't seen the show)
(DIR) Post #AQ6fRmrpFhP15wjLDk by PadreSJ@twit.social
2022-11-29T20:09:58Z
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@leo I'm so happy Leo! It's one of my favorite SciFi series.Be sure to listen to the Novellas as well. (I think they're bundled into a single package now.)
(DIR) Post #AQ6gXZ5bUTB83VUg52 by joelpomales@mastodon.social
2022-11-29T20:22:12Z
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@leo @PadreSJ I've been meaning to get back to reading it. I think I stopped on book #3. But the claustrophobia in the show? I think it's baked into the design. I mean, the only time you see long shots of anything are on Earth and Mars. Out there there's nothing. That's how they live! It's a great show.