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Discuss Fiasco by Stanisław Lem in the comments below. If you have any book suggestions for the upcoming poll, feel free to add those.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is the first book of the "Bobiverse" series by Dennis E. Taylor:
Dennis E. Taylor is a Canadian novelist and former computer programmer known for his large scale hard science fiction stories exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the human condition.
While working at his day job as a computer programmer, Taylor self published his first novel and began working with an agent to try and publish his second novel We Are Legion. However Taylor still had difficultly getting any publishing house to take on his work, eventually publishing it through his agent's in-house publishing arm. An audiobook rights deal with Audible was also reached and once recorded, We Are Legion became one of the most popular audiobooks on the service and was awarded Best Science Fiction Audiobook of the year.
[...] In October 2018 Taylor was added to the X-Prize Foundation Science Fiction Advisory Council as a "Visionary Storyteller". This group of accomplished science fiction authors help advise the X-Prize team on envisioning the future.
Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho! • Foundation • The Three-Body Problem • Snow Crash • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:01PM (2 children)
Still reading it. I seem to have a lot of other things to do.
(Score: 2) by Ayn Anonymous on Wednesday March 13 2019, @09:18AM
There is a audio book you can listen to while driving/riding.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fiasco+stanislaw+lem+audiobook [duckduckgo.com]
(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Wednesday March 13 2019, @12:02PM
I hope this topic won't get locked by the time you have finished it. After the first half of the book I just couldn't stop reading it. The last 50 pages felt like I've read them on single breath.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Improbus on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:54PM (1 child)
I have listened to be Unabridged Audibile version of the Bobiverse Trilogy twice. It is awesome. Anyone that loves space and computers and simulations will love these books. The narrator of the audiobooks is awesome too. A++ will probably listen to them again.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday March 12 2019, @08:26PM
I'm signed up for Cryonics and it gave me a new perspective on reanimation that I hadn't considered. I'm still planning on doing it, even if it means I'll be driving a garbage truck.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:04PM (4 children)
May I recommend Too Far by Rich Shapiro?
An amazing blend of reality and fantasy verging on poetry.
My son gave me a copy. I was spellbound from the first page.
A Goodreads reviewer described it as "two six-year-olds ... take refuge from their turbulent homes by exploring the mysterious woodland beyond."
I won't quote more of that sentence because it contains spoilers. Take it form me -- only read the rest of that sentence after you have read the book.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:05PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:13PM
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
by Ben Shapiro
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @09:12AM (1 child)
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It seem too me your opinion about this book is a lonely one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:54PM
And the guy is a Nazi.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ayn Anonymous on Thursday March 14 2019, @04:50AM (1 child)
I actually have two book suggestions:
Oryx and Crake - Book #1 of the MaddAddam trilogy. By Margaret Atwood
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46756.Oryx_and_Crake [goodreads.com]
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Beggars in Spain - Book #1 of the Sleepless trilogy. By Nancy Kress.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68333.Beggars_in_Spain [goodreads.com]
I recommend the audio-book versions.
(Score: 1) by Improbus on Monday March 25 2019, @05:02PM
Loved Beggars in Spain and the other books. Great hard sci-fi.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday March 16 2019, @02:12PM
I'm having trouble finding an epub version of We Are Legion.
I live in Canada; some US booksellers refuse to deal with me.
Any suggestions where to look? Kobe doesn't seem to carry it -- or else their web page has absolutely *terrible* search.
(Score: 1) by adp on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:32AM (1 child)
So who was Marek Tempe? Pirx or Parvis?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday March 21 2019, @02:51AM
There's another Lem book in which Pirx returns to Earth and cannot relate to anything in the changes world. So my guess is Parvis.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday March 20 2019, @01:06PM
We are Legion (We are Bob) is not available in .epub.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:31PM
Nonfiction this time:
A New History of Life, by Peter Ward and Joe Kirshvink
A fascinating history of life on Earth, starting with the pre-life molten world of meteoric bombardment, and tracking it through the various snowball earths to the present.
-- hendrik