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THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die …
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, …
This was much better than its predecessor "Consider Phlebas", which really suffered from pacing issues. Here, interesting ideas are explored at a leisurely pace without fully losing the element of suspense. It also is about post-singularity civilization, which I always adore.
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the …
Different from what I usually read but I enjoyed myself a lot.
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United …
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United …
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are …
Not the easiest read for me, but still fun of interesting ideas and beautiful prose.
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can …
I did not finish this one. The whole premise seems to hinge on the idea that you can just arbitrarily reorder the steps of a deterministic computation. This clearly is not possible in general and the book does not even try to come up with an excuse why it should be possible in their setting. Am I just supposed to suspend my belief for that? It then goes on to expound lots of philosophy based on this premise, but it all rings rather hollow for me given that the lynch pin is so ridiculous.
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in …
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in …
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits …
The first third of the book is somewhat boring, I often felt a little disoriented. However, the rest of the book really delivers. Many questions from the first book are answered, thankfully many are also still left open. As opposed to the supernatural themes of the first book, this one is more about political intrigue/conspiracies. Still very well executed.
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. …
