17 March 2010
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Out of reading material

notemily:

abbyjean:

choire:

I need new scifi book recommendations please. (Ebook availability way preferable.) What’s new, what’s happening, what’s not post-cyberpunk or too futureshock, what’s actually good??

Hunger Games! do not be put off by it being YA. it is adult-appropriate.

I second Hunger Games! I also like the Uglies/Pretties/Specials trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, but it reads a little younger than Hunger Games. Still… it has hoverboards!

I’ve been really itching to read/audioread Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. The creator of an automated system dies which triggers the system to start…killing. It’s an interesting look at how seemingly benign computer programs affect our lives, but extrapolated to the extreme. To get you further interested, Suarez gave a talk about bot-mediated reality, a companion study to the book, at the Long Now Foundation. If you’ve got an hour he’s got some very interesting insights.

Found via notemily. Originally posted by choire.
  1. nirak reblogged this from littletinyfish and added:
    Westerfield books - Pretties/Uglies/Special/Extras. Nice quick and fun reads. another YA novel- “Little Brother”
  2. alexanderbasek reblogged this from choire and added:
    Girlfriend who works in the biz suggests Maze Runner instead of Hunger Games. Teen boys with memory loss placed in a...
  3. chrismohney reblogged this from choire and added:
    read was Anathem, which is great unless you don’t like Neal Stephenson. Warning: contains math.
  4. littletinyfish reblogged this from notemily and added:
    I’ve been really itching to read/audioread Daemon, by Daniel Suarez. The creator of an automated system dies which...
  5. bulletinaweave reblogged this from kaninchenzero and added:
    can offer to recommend (because I’m not...big scifi reader ATM, but
  6. kaninchenzero reblogged this from notemily and added:
    I will always and ever recommend Black Wine and A Paradigm of Earth by Candas Jane Dorsey. She is a Canadian woman who...
  7. notemily reblogged this from abbyjean and added:
    I second Hunger Games! I also like the Uglies/Pretties/Specials trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, but it reads a little...
  8. sorryyourheinous reblogged this from choire and added:
    Odds are very high you have read this, but...hadn’t because my friends are a-holes and...
  9. abbyjean reblogged this from choire and added:
    Hunger Games! do...be put off by it being YA. it is adult-appropriate.
  10. joyengel reblogged this from choire and added:
    I’m on an Elizabeth Strout kick right now. Check her out!
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