I was listening to a science and futurism with Isaac Arthur episode about deep time and cryo ships and the book Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds was recommended and it sounded interesting so I gave it a read and Lord it was a really good book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89186.Pushing_Ice

Edit: Just finished house of suns. Whoa!

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Goodreads is a subsidiary of Amazon. Consider using the Fediverse equivalent: BookWyrm

    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOP
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      2 months ago

      I’m going to have to try to go through House of Suns again. If I remember correctly, I started to try to read it and was put off by the political world environment building or whatever. But I’ll have to give it another shot.

      • hoodles@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I still think about Diamond Dogs every so often. Kind of gave me the same vibes as the movie, The Cube

      • Yaky@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        Another fantastic short story is The Sleepover. Most of humanity is in hibernation and is being haunted by ethereal lovecraftian entities.

        Turquoise Days was the first short story I read by him, and I think it could make a fun movie.

        • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          A few of his short stories have been adapted before! Two of them were made into shorts in the “Love, Death & Robots” anthologies on netflix. They were “Beyond Aquila Rift” and “Zima Blue”.

  • hoodles@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’ve read everything this man’s written; it’s all amazing. Obviously the revelation space series is the most well-known, which I can’t recommend highly enough. If you want to get a taste of that universe without committing to the series yet, Chasm City is really great standalone.

  • notenoughfuel@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    One of my favourite SF book. Very interesting setting with unforessleeable (up to certain part) ending.