Ooh

[jack]

Ooh, boooks. PSA: I am *not* a materialistic book whore.

I have acquired:

The Hallowed Hunt (Bujold's latest Challion!)
Several Greg Egan
Atrocity archives (second hand, still on its way)
Wacom graphics tablet. Grpahical representation of my humours, here we come!

It all makes a surprisingly small compact package[1].

I don't think I deserve the tablet though, we may agree to make it a retrospective early christmas present from family, on account of if I keep buying cool and unnescessary stuff myself there'll be nothing anyone can get for me if they want to.

[1] Typo of the week: passage. Ick :)

Comments

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Greg Egan rocks :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I read that as rocks(n) rather than rocks(v) -- it was very surreal :)

So, I expect to like them. Which Egan books should I read *second*? :)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Axiomatic!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (Also see below)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

OK, I've only read Axiomatic and Luminous, the two collections of short fiction, of which Axiomatic is superior - Luminous has some really excellent stuff but also a couple of duff moments.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you be winking already? :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Cool, that sounds familiar :)

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

You're reading Diaspora first? I agree that Axiomatic is a great collection; the story "Learning to be Me" was a personal favourite. Of other novels, I liked Distress a lot too.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

From scattered recommendations I have Diaspora, Axiomatic, Permutation City and Luminous. I don't know what order I will read those in. After which, I'll see. I didn't have a single advisor anywhere, so I don't know what I maybe should have started with instead :)

[mair_in_grenderich]

read a chapter of each in turn. vary the order in which you read the chapters after each cycle[1].

[1] cycle is not the right word there, but I can't think of the right word and hope it will be sufficient to convey my meaning.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

No? :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

But cycle works. In fact, it'd be quite like ringing a change, really.

[mair_in_grenderich]

yes, I thought that :)

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I read Permutation City first out of those, and really liked the first half. The second half went a bit strange, to my view (I don't think that's really a spoiler!). His more recent books seem to have suffered from that sort of thing less. Luminous was another good collection of shorts, but I think Axiomatic was more memorable.

Rather like Baxter in his own area, Egan seems to have "strip-mined" a well-defined set of SF concepts through his writing :-)