Just finished Earthseed by Pamela Sargent. Just found that there are 2 sequels & I don't think I have them.
Wasteland of flint thomas harlan. a very interesting piece of alternate history. you don't normally find them where the story happens 1000 years after the point of divergence
Just finished "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" by James McNeil Whistler. He sure knew how to do that! Good read though. (spoiler - he wins in the end)
The Martian by Andy Weir Finished the book. The best book I've read really. No monster's, no insanity , no aliens, no warping of space-time, black-holes and such. Just high-tech , pure survival innovations. On Mars , alone. Definitely worth the time to read.
Weird. I just finished The Martian, too. I was particularly impressed by the scientific accuracy of it. The film that is about to be released could go one of two ways. Either it could be a contemplative film, a bit like the book, in which the interest is in how the stranded astronaut solves the problems he is faced with. Or, they could do it as an edge-of-your-seat action thriller, where a new danger lurks every minute. I think it's Matt Damon in the lead role, so it will be interesting to see which way the film goes. I hope they don't do it just as an action film, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Those are fun except the third one (from the Foundation trilogy) in which we sense the Author being trapped by his editor (without selling it). The later forbidden him to integrate an Alien species for audience reasons... Making the whole trilogy looks like a braid. Still, reading I-Robot ATM and being delighted by his writing style.
Peter F. Hamilton The Night's Dawn Trilogy About half way through book one .( The Reality Dysfunction ) Anyone read this series? If so your thoughts ?
Also reading : The Master and his Emissary ( by Iain McGilChrist) The divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Any body reading this book ?
I've read the Night's Dawn Trilogy. It's good, though I seem to recall a bit of an obsession on the part of Mr. Hamilton with at least one of the central characters' sex life.
Somehow or other, I came to possess a copy of Fingerprints of the Gods myself. I certainly didn't purchase it. From memory, it's full of wacky theories about alien spaceships and the pyramids of Egypt and so on. Parts of it are entertaining enough, but none of it should be taken to be serious scholarship. It's all based on woo.
Best book I have ever read was "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes....... Not so much a history of the Manhattan project, as a whole rundown on late 19th century, and 20th century physics from Roentgen and Bequeral, to Curie and Mitner, and Einstein and Feynman and every giant in between! Great stuff!
This is weird. It's like people are looking in my library and posting about the books that are there. (Admittedly, I own or have read quite a few books.) Yes, The making of the Atomic Bomb is an excellent read, and I highly recommend it. Rhodes has also written two sequels, I think. One is about the making of the hydrogen bomb. The other is related, and more recent, and slips my mind (and I haven't read it).
