Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'

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Post by innot » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 8:59 PM UTC

Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'
daniel-suarez.com

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Post by NikolaeVarius » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 12:58 AM UTC

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

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Post by mabbo » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 1:29 AM UTC

One of my favorite recent hard sci fi novels. The science and engineering were all real, plausible, and the story was fun too.

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Post by RangerScience » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 1:38 AM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

In same-same-but-different, I recommend "Walkaway" (Cory Doctorow) and "Nexus" (Rameez Nam).

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Post by mrslave » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

I'll take these as unsolicited strong recommendations for my next sci-fi novel reading, as I'm just finishing the Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space trilogy. Thank you!

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Post by superkuh » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 3:02 AM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

Daemon and Freedom are top class hard scifi. The plot hinges on technical detail that is both completely plausible and a natural extension of existing information technology. It's obvious that Suarez really understands what he's talking about in a deep way. I'd say "Daemon" is top twenty for best hard scifi books. http://superkuh.com/hardscifi.txt

Delta-v is good scifi and I love this kind of background detail.

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Post by brutus1213 » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 3:12 AM UTC

Wonderful book and very thought provoking. Agreed on Daemon being fantastic. I read these as audio books on the treadmill .. can't give it a higher recommendation.

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Post by mdorazio » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 3:56 AM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

I enjoyed Delta-V, but Daemon and Freedom IMO were much more entertaining

100% agree that Daemon and Freedom are top-class plausible hard sci-fi, which is surprisingly hard to come by. On the other hand, I didn't much care for Influx.

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Post by dvh » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 4:13 AM UTC

Not a single radiator on that thing.

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