AwardAnnuals.com has a list of science fiction books in order of how many awards they've won. Here are the top 100 award winners: 1 The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood 2 A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge 3 The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer 4 The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson 5 Neuromancer, by William Gibson 6 The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter 7 Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis 8...
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via youtube.com Just finished Anathem, Neal Stephenson's latest novel. As rich and overwhelming as the Baroque Cycle. Loved it. Posted via web from rujmah's QT (Quick Thoughts) posterous
The winners of the 2009 Locus Awards have been announced. The full list is here. Anathem by Neal Stephenson won the best Science Fiction novel. For the short fiction "Pretty Monsters" by Kelly Link won best novella, "Pump Six"...
The 2009 Locus Award winners for best science fiction and related books published in 08, as voted by the general public, have been announced. A good place to start your reading if you want to read some of the best stuff out there. Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow) Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) First Novel: Singularity's Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)...
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David Foster Wallace's mammoth novel Infinite Jest has been sitting on my shelf, unread, for at leat 5 years. I have noted on frequent occassions that it's a book that I should probably read at some point, but for various reasons, I could never find a time that felt right to read it. I'm not intimidated by its size. My favorite author is Neal Stephenson , and that guy hasn't written a novel shorter...
While doing some rearranging in our warehouse, our shippers have turned up copies of the odd book or three that we thought long out of print. First up for sale are six copies of Neal Stephenson’s classic, Snow Crash. Copies are $150 apiece plus shipping (limit one copy per household or family). If you’re interested, [...]
I remember reading Neal Stephenson 's Snow Crash and his description of the Metaverse, his conception of virtual reality and online communication, thrilled me. I knew in many ways it was more realistic than Gibson 's cyberspace. For instance, Stephenson described how people can choose their own avatars and it's a sign of a newbie or at least a non-programmer to have an "off-the-shelf" avatar,...
We just finished Neal Stephenson's Anathem on audiobook last week. We've been fans since Snow Crash , and loved the audio adaptations for both that book and Diamond Age First, a side note that I'm a bit of fan about audiobooks. It fits easily with the fact that I rarely have time to read for fun anymore and The Girl and I can share the book in tandem. It helps that production of audiobooks has gotten...
We're spending the day with family (my parents and my in-laws) so I don't know how much reading I'll get done today. I am bringing along Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. It's over 1000 pages long, and I'm only around 200 pages in. It's interesting so far - very detailed and philosophical/scientific. I am enjoying it, but I honestly don't know what the point of the book is yet. I'm clueless about which...
Tom Levenson's series about the writing of his Newton and the Counterfeiter continues with a piece on the getting of blurbs for the cover : Newton and the Counterfeiter ( Amazon , Powells , Barnes and Noble , Indiebound ) is by far my best-blurbed book, boasting enthusiastic and generous praise from a very diverse crew of luminaries — ( David Bodanis , Junot Díaz , Timothy Ferris , Brian...
The first projector I remember seeing in person had three great big glass eyes (for red, green, and blue lamps) and BNC connectors. It probably weighed more than 100 pounds, and had to be carefully calibrated to align the lenses. Now, I've got a projector above my head that weighs less than a Neal Stephenson novel and has a sharper, brighter image than that monster. I've been looking into LED projectors...
There's a list of books a cultured person is supposed to have read. Its size and composition vary depending on who you ask, but roughly speaking there exists a Western canon containing works by authors with names like Shakespeare and Dostoevsky and Milton and Sophocles. There's something of a Nerd Canon too. The names of the authors of its works are more like Asimov and Feynman. It's a list that's...
The ones I've read are in bold print: 2009 Song of Time, Ian R. MacLeod 2008 Black Man, Richard Morgan 2007 Nova Swing, M. John Harrison 2006 Air, Geoff Ryman 2005 Iron Council, China Mieville 2004 Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson 2003 The Separation, Christopher Priest 2002 Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones 2001 Perdido Street Station, China Mieville 2000 Distraction, Bruce Sterling 1999 Dreaming in Smoke,...
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