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  I recommend....

  that you guys read some Alastair Reynolds. I've just finished his space opera trilogy;
  Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, and Absolution Gap.
  
  Reynolds is a phd astronomer in RL so his writing is astrophysics related. Hard sci fi readers should love his books.

  bmazz started this discussion 12 months ago. ( reply )

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  Raghu 

  i have read a couple of books of his. I agree they are pretty good. diamond dogs and absolution gap.
  But all these authors - reynolds, baxter etc go around the fermi paradox by finding relics and alien artifacts in their books...
  
  eg the hypometric weapon and cache weapons that the conjoiners acquire from the computer at hades. the statement in Absolution Gap is pretty good :
  "the hypometric weapon represented a general class of weakly acausal technologies...
  Simply grasping how such weapons were in some way disadvantageous to something loosely analogous to an enemy would have required such a comprehensive remapping of the human mind that it would be pointless calling it human anymore."
  
  

  posted 11 months ago. ( reply )

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  Rick S 

  I'm trying to read Revelation Space right now, and have to admit it seems slow and convoluted. I'm giving it a proper go because he's Welsh, it has good reviews, and because of his science background, but I have put down books with better beginnings. It is his first novel, so I'll keep plugging along, but so far the best I can say is he needed a better editor, at best.

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    Raghu 

    Ya, reynolds is pretty complicated as books go. but somehow i like them . i suppose the more fantastic they get and still stay within the realms of science, the more i like them.
    
    on a different note, it is pretty difficult to find his or other sci-fi books here on book shelves in india.. so i am reading them as i find them :D.

    posted 10 months ago. ( reply )

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