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I think his explanation was that right angles don't appear in nature so the trait didn't get selected out.
>I think his explanation was that right angles don't appear in nature Which is weird, because they do.
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Thanks. Tried to get into the series too, but end up just reading the summary of things and the whole series just sounds depressing. :(
It is. One of the sequels was one of the times that a scene in a book actually made me cry. If you don't like depressing novels, also stay away from Stephen Baxter; I love his novels, but most of them are wildly depressing.
Oh. I don't remember those being depressing though it's been years since I read any.
Which ones do you remember being that way?
Legend of Zero quadrilogy by Sara King: https://www.goodreads.com/series/103017-the-legend-of-zero
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Yeah, Project Hail Mary was the only one of the three I'd ever heard of. Still, it was a great book (especially since I read it right on the heels of reading Artemis , which was only "okay").
I heard there might be a movie adaptation of Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling.
An old but excellent book (written in the 1920s in Soviet Russia) is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin I also like Solaris though I suppose everyone has heard of that one.
Then, a year or two ago, I read about how bad the early translations were, so I picked up a new English translation. Wow, what a difference. Now it’s one of my favorites.
The problem with Project Hail Mary is that the audio book is good but the book is not. First read the book and then listen to the audio book and you know what I mean.
>the audio book is good but the book is not I don't know how that can possibly make sense.
I once commented on Twitter that the Anansi Boys audiobook read by Lenny Henry was better than the book. Neil Gaiman responded, “I agree”.
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Yeah, Project Hail Mary was the only one of the three I'd ever heard of. Still, it was a great book (especially since I read it right on the heels of reading Artemis , which was only "okay").
I didn't read Project Hail Mary because I read Artemis. Maybe I'll have to check it out. :)
Actually I made a website that’s mostly sci-fi books I’ve read https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/ It uses a google spreadsheet as a database so you just need to update the spreadsheet and it adds a book to the website. I have a life goal to read every thing written by Phillip k dick as well as every book on David Pringle’s 100 best sci-fi list. Some of the books are hard to find though. Like I’ve been searching fo…
Ubik is probably my favorite, or (to be cliche) Androids.
PKD says more in single paragraphs than many authors manage to say in entire books.
The problem with Project Hail Mary is that the audio book is good but the book is not. First read the book and then listen to the audio book and you know what I mean.
>the audio book is good but the book is not I don't know how that can possibly make sense.
I read PHM and didn’t love it; my friends who listened to it all loved it. Maybe I should give it a try.