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Wednesday 30 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:92 Holy Fire

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@bruces Plausible near future SciFi. Like all great SciFi the book uses technology and visions of futuristic society as a means of exploring the deeper questions of what it is to be human. Here the tensions between the philosophies of the young and the old; Disruption and status quo.


Bruce Sterling - Holy Fire

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Saturday 26 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:93 Matter

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Some great Aliens and hints of ancient mysteries. The planet is like a massive nested Mos Eisley bar with Alien cultures rubbing cheeks and creating friction. To my mind a bit long and rambly. Still it's a Banks Culture novel, and Banks on a bad day is the better than most of the competition at the top of their game.




Iain M.  Banks - Matter

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Friday 25 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:94 The Algebraist

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Diabolical Luseferous! The torture scenes still bother me to this day, squatting in the back of my mind like malevolant toads. A galaxy violent and desperate but without the steady cynical hand's of the Minds to guide it.



Iain M.  Banks - The Algebraist

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Thursday 24 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:95 Signal to Noise

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Hard dark SciFi with everybody keeping their head's down in a hostile galaxy. Interstellar phishing.


Eric S. Nylund - Signal to Noise

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Thursday 17 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:96 Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy

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@DavidBrin - Great concepts, alien environments and hard science. Perhaps lacking a bit of gritty realism at times.


David Brin - Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy

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Thursday 10 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:97 Dancers at the end of Time

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@MoorcocksMisc - Decadent, jaded, hopeless. How I expect homo sapiens to end up, shortly before the last of us passes away from apathy.


Michael Morcock - Dancers at the end of Time

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Friday 4 December 2015

#top100 #scifi Num:98 The Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy

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@mjohnharrison John Harrison - Disturbing Original Sci-Fi. Bold concepts and brocken people. Quantum ontology and a unknowable hostile universe.



John Harrison - The Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy

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