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Go with Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Two of the best books ever written by our species.
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What is this Neuromancer of which you speak?
And besides, who needs far-out future tech to enjoy SF? I'm just finishing Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Arrabesk trilogy, which takes place in a slightly-alternate future that I've never quite been able to pin down - something about pre-Great War Germany remaining the dominant power in Europe; since most of the action takes place in an alternate Alexandria, just navigating my way through the North African cultural oddities takes up enough of your attention. The fact that there's an alternate timeline is enough to discourage my brother from reading them, and he's even more of a JCG fan than I am. But the point is, there's very little theoretical physics involved. Bit more of that in his new one, Stamping Butterflies, which continues his interest in North Africa but is unconnected to the Arrabesks.
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I don't think the problem is so much the writers as the publishers. All they see is the bottom line and much like current TV and movie offerings, they are far more willing to spend a billion dollars on some "tried & true" formulaic expression than they are to give a shot to something that might be considered outre. Of course, in the case of Science Fiction, that means they have no clue who their demographic actually is.
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quote:Originally posted by HerbShrump: And Simmon's sequils Endymion and Rise of Endymion.
I liked those....but he really should have stopped after the first two books- anything else is just....additional.
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