17 odpowiedzi

1. Hi! I'm a new subscriber, really enjoying this video, I have read a few science fiction novels, a handful perhaps, what are some must reads that you would recommend for someone finding their feet in what they do and don't like? Sorry if its a question you get asked or a lot, of if you already have a video about this!

2. Liked the use of two strands and plot threads in Barrington Bayley review 😂

3. 🔥

4. I'd struggle to read 11 books in a year 😞

5. I've read loads of John Gribbin's pop-sci (very good). Had no idea he wrote fiction too.

6. Hello Summer, Goodbye was in my top 10 reads of 2024.

7. If you liked ''War of the Worlds'' you should search for the mockumentary''The great Martian War'' A war that took place in the same time period of WW 1, It's on YouTube .

8. Nice to see Macleod here. He led me to early Stross, which I adore.

9. Thanks for the good video, I'm even more looking forward to the new Reynolds now.

10. I was really pleasantly surprised by Soldiers of Paradise. Liked the social commentary: eternal war, rampant abuse of power, a significant fraction of the population in a monumental prison for dumb reasons, said prison being the centerpiece of the capitol city, etc . More than a wiff of wry Vance. Engaging viewpoint character, unique, well drawn situations… apologies for rambling..

11. Loss Protocol is excellent. A novel about loss and grieving hidden in an SF wrapper. Best genre-marketed book I’ve read this year. And more optimistic than, say, Austral. He’s cheering up in his older age perhaps. That Coney is lovely too. It should be better known but I don’t think it gets into the survey books.

12. Jon, I have to take exception to your throwaway remark at the end of A World out of Time, where you remarked that the concepts seem familiar. You’ve used a similar remark when discussing a Clarke novel, I think the City and the Stars. Of course the concepts seem familiar…a World out of Time was published in 1976! These books introduced those concepts into the minds of the authors that would use them in their own writings in the future. Sigh… I recall almost losing my mind at the originality and the sheer scope of the ideas when I first read aWooT, back in the 80’s.

    These are the seminal works in Science Fiction in the 20th century…of course they’re going to sound familiar, that’s because subsequent authors have vigorously filed off the serial numbers and gleefully used them in their own writing. 🙄🙄😂🤣😛🤓

13. I too had quite a strong productive month, reading 8 books, mostly very good or better. My top 3 in order were Orbitsville (Bob Shaw), As On a Darkling Plain (Ben Bova), and Clone (Richard Cowper).

14. Some interesting reads this month. Loss Protocol is the one I most want to read myself. The Coney also sounds very interesting so one I'll be getting a copy of. Halcyon Days doesn't grab me sufficiently to bump it up my reading list priority but I'll be getting to it eventually. The Garments of Caen is another one for me to get.

15. The legacy of Heorot sounds intriguing, and a lot of horniness sounds about right for Niven 😂 Might check out his other book as well.

    And Halcyon Days. Would like to read all of Reynold's works at some point.

16. Good to see you discovering Coney and Bayley, been banging on about them on my channel for years as you probably know. I fancy that McCauley too, ages since I read anything by him.

17. As in a few of A Reynolds books, I've found lapses that have really irritated me. Pushing Ice, and now this one, prime amongst them. I wonder, could he slow down a little? The dialogue is always awful in his rushed books. He certainly didn't make the most of the dread of an ark sailing to oblivion in HYs. He really needs to stop the coffee and try some Ovaltine. Excellent vid, ta.