Science Fiction Wanted

[kropotkin]

£7.29 on Kindle!

Cheaper to buy it second hand/

I can email you it for kindle

 

[Awesome Wells]

He was massive in the late 90s - I have loads of his stuff from then - but sort of vanished after that. He is still around and tweeting though.

I think he's got a new one out: Channel SK1N

In stopped reading around the time of Automated Alice.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Thanks for the offers. I will have to think about it, it sorry of feels weird pirating novels. Like it's too easy, even though some of the prices are patently ridiculous and somewhat random.

 

[Awesome Wells]

You can never find a decent editor when you need one these days.

Tell that TV Steven Erikson; his epic fantasy series comprises huge bricks with no exposition!

 

[Awesome Wells]

If one wanted to 'find' ebooks on the interwebs, what sites in particular are best?

 

[DotCommunist]

If one wanted to 'find' ebooks on the interwebs, what sites in particular are best?

just use pirate bay. Or ask me- i have about 3000 sci fi epubs so if you want it theres I chance I have it.

never felt a need to use any specific ebook torrent site. Pirate Bay, every day

 

[Awesome Wells]

Darwin's Elevator?

or the aforementioned Daedalus Incident?

Both of which are astupidly overpriced (ie the print versions or used, even, are more expensive).

How does the Kindle app read epubs?

 

[Orang Utan]

Convert to mobi with Caliber

 

[mango5]

Pat Cadigan is a very good cyberpunky read

 

[Awesome Wells]

Convert to mobi with Caliber

Yeah, I had some mobi files that when i clicked on them in me tablet was told the device didn't recognise the file format.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Pat Cadigan is a very good cyberpunky read

I've heard of him/her but i've never read any.

I love cyberpunk, but it's fallen by the wayside a bit these days. Alterad Carbon was pretty decent, and the Quantum Thief books are really interesting, if hard to follow.

 

[mango5]

She's proper scifi, though not written in a while

 

[D'wards]

If one wanted to 'find' ebooks on the interwebs, what sites in particular are best?

http://forum.mobilism.org/viewforum.php?f=106 is good

 

[D'wards]

Not exactly a "hidden gem", but just finished Ender's Game and thought it was outstanding. The final act is superb, one of the best endings in fiction.

 

[D'wards]

just use pirate bay. Or ask me- i have about 3000 sci fi epubs so if you want it theres I chance I have it.

never felt a need to use any specific ebook torrent site. Pirate Bay, every day

Can you recommend any sci fi (or other genres) involving shrunken or small people? Micro, Incredible Shrinking Man, Carpet People, Gulliver's Travels, Borrowers stylee?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

It's not like any of those you mention but I recently read SPin by Robert Charles Wilson. It's a brilliant look at how people live, react and how their relationships evolve in the face of the apocalyptic unknown.

Thanks for recommending this. I've just finished it - it is indeed excellent.

 

[golightly]

Can you recommend any sci fi (or other genres) involving shrunken or small people? Micro, Incredible Shrinking Man, Carpet People, Gulliver's Travels, Borrowers stylee?

Flux by Stephen Baxter is a story about tiny people engineered to live on the surface of a neutron star. James Blish has a story called 'Surface tension' in the Seedling Stars which is about tiny people engineered to live in a puddle of water.

 

[DotCommunist]

Can you recommend any sci fi (or other genres) involving shrunken or small people? Micro, Incredible Shrinking Man, Carpet People, Gulliver's Travels, Borrowers stylee?

struggling to recall the title but its Aldiss era- theres a generation starship drifting full of small people who have reverted to savagery and no longer even know they are in a false world...arg...thats gonna bug me

 

[Awesome Wells]

Anyone read the Dire Earth books, starting with the Darwin Elevator?

 

[golightly]

struggling to recall the title but its Aldiss era- theres a generation starship drifting full of small people who have reverted to savagery and no longer even know they are in a false world...arg...thats gonna bug me

Non-stop.

 

[DotCommunist]

Non-stop.

bang on!

 

[D'wards]

Non-stop.

Thanks fellas. I love this very narrow genre, for some odd reason.

I have Micro by Michael Crichton to read, but he snuffed it halfway through and someone else finished it. Gets poor reviews. Have you or DotCommunist read it?

 

[DotCommunist]

Thanks fellas. I love this very narrow genre, for some odd reason.

I have Micro by Michael Crichton to read, but he snuffed it halfway through and someone else finished it. Gets poor reviews. Have you or DotCommunist read it?

I've not read it but I have read a fair bit of chrichton and he's a capable plodder with the odd good idea and one beady eye on the film rights. You may recall that shit one with apes and diamonds that inexplicably failed to win people over at the box office

 

[golightly]

Thanks fellas. I love this very narrow genre, for some odd reason.

I have Micro by Michael Crichton to read, but he snuffed it halfway through and someone else finished it. Gets poor reviews. Have you or DotCommunist read it?

Must admit I hadn't heard of it. The only Crighton novels I've read were the Andromeda Strain and Terminal Man.

I supppose that you've probably read Fantastic Voyage by Asimov? Also, I recall that there was fad for stories about shrinking people in 1930's sci-fi. I think it was because atoms were often described as being like tiny solar systems so a few authors took the idea rather literally.

 

[maya]

There's a Ray Bradbury story too where the twist at the end make you realise that all the main characters are in fact tiny (I think they've just landed their tiny spaceship inside an earth man's shed). I always remember this story, because I subconsciously plagiarised it once for a school essay which I thought was super original, but of course my dad immediately pointed out where I'd got it from. Don't remember which short story collection it's from, though.