Oolite Bulletins

Earlier this month I discovered the "Radium Age" series, published by HiLow Books. I managed to pick up a few at a conference but there are still ones on the list that I want to get hold of - not least E V Odle's The Clockwork Man, from 1923:

http://io9.com/now-you-can-read-the-ver ... 1367701899

It may be the first cyborg story ever published. It's also the first book to explore the idea of uploads, and the technological Singularity. Plus, it's also about liberated 1920s women!

Peter F Hamilton Void series was a good read ... as well as his others...

Roger Zelazny Amber series was also a fun read.....

trouble is it is getting hard to find true Science Fiction now. most of the book stores cram the SCI/FI section with fantasy books due to the success of the lord of the rings movies i expect.

then there is some bloke who sometimes hangs around here wrote some decent stuff... Drew was his name i think.....

In terms of "pure" new SF, Paul McAuley is very well worth reading - his Quiet War series in particular. Mauiby mentioned Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch books, which I also recommend. Ken MacLeod is also good: his recent Intrusion is worryingly plausible in several instances. Charles Stross's Neptune's Brood has - over and above a great Monty Python in-joke - a very interesting look at the economics of an interstellar, but sublight, society. And I would urge people to read Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bears, which is a hoot from start to finish.

I like Ken MacLeod a lot. Another tale from the Internet Archive - classic Heinlein!

More contemporary SF: I'd also put in a good word for Adam Roberts, and his two recent novels By Light Alone and Jack Glass.

Cody wrote:

I like Ken MacLeod a lot. Another tale from the Internet Archive - classic Heinlein!

Cool! I see "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" is there too, will have to give that a read.

aarrgghhh so many books , so little time to read them all.....

I'm 44 pages into Drew Wagar's "Status Quo" and really enjoying it. I haven't read all that much other Sci-Fi recently but I did really like "Non-Stop" by Brian Aldiss when I read it last summer.

Well, that was a great read. Thanks Drew. Now for Mutabilis.

well i dug out my ipaq Hx4700 PDA and reinstalled mobipocket reader.....
copied over as many of my ebooks i could... i now have to download calibre and convert some to a version mobi can read....
i tried to use an eink reader but that damn flashing of the screen at every page turn is just obnoxious. the PDA screen is quite a bit bigger than my iphone 4s so its easier to read on and the battery lasts longer!!!

so i now have some Asprin,Asimov, Mark Tufo (zombie fallout) , and a few others....need a bigger CF card now...4Gig microdrive is too small..... got some audio books on it as well.....