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I just started The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's interesting, but I'm not far enough along to judge it yet.
I've read a few of his books including that one and the blurb for me has been better then the book.
I just started The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's interesting, but I'm not far enough along to judge it yet.
I just started The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's interesting, but I'm not far enough along to judge it yet.
At the moment... nothing!
I just finished GRRM's Clash of Kings a little while back, and John Scalzi's Old Man's War just today. I am, at the moment, without a book!
OK, what did you think of Old Man's War? I keep reading about how impressed people are with it, but it struck me as a poor cousin to Haldeman's The Forever War.
Pretty much. The world created is interesting, but the plot is meh. I would have wanted to know more about that world. How is life in other countries, those run by calorie companies.I think The Windup Girl is interesting, thought-provoking, and well worth reading...but it didn't quite wow me as a story.
Forever War is a science fiction classic. Old Man's War was not a lot like it other then there is war in space. If you read the sequels to both they really go different places.
Pretty much. The world created is interesting, but the plot is meh. I would have wanted to know more about that world. How is life in other countries, those run by calorie companies.
Writting a novels and short stories aren't the same thing. You can "cut corners" in short stories that you couldn't in novels. Gibson short stories like Johny Mnemonic or Burning Chrome were better than his sprawl trilogy. I saw Bacigalupi's short story collection, I guess I'll have to read it now. Damn you! /shakes fist