EvilRedEye wrote:New Tolkien book out next year, The Nature of Middle Earth, edited by Carl F Hostetter. Will include late and previously unpublished writings by JRR Tolkien on the nature of Middle Earth, both metaphysical and natural. How many people have to die before they stop publishing new Tolkien books???
davyK wrote:EvilRedEye wrote:New Tolkien book out next year, The Nature of Middle Earth, edited by Carl F Hostetter. Will include late and previously unpublished writings by JRR Tolkien on the nature of Middle Earth, both metaphysical and natural. How many people have to die before they stop publishing new Tolkien books???
I've no interest in that sort of thing. At a push I might read the Silmarillion. I haven't even read much of the Appendices.
The man is gone - no point warming up some of his half formed scribblings filled in by hacks even if they are related
davyK wrote:Forgot I hadn't completed the Three Body Problem so back at that. Easier going now - I found it hard going at the start and I had difficulty keeping track of the Chinese surnames.
It's very much something for those who have a basic level of science and computing. I can't imagine a complete layman enjoying it - esp. in the first half. All that malarky about building XOR gates etc. Stuff I know about pretty well but only because all that fundamental logic and computing architecture was covered in my A level and degree.
Anyhoo. The novel is based around a very nice idea. Has me properly hooked now.
Gremill wrote:The series just gets better and better too, one of my all time favourites.Forgot I hadn't completed the Three Body Problem so back at that. Easier going now - I found it hard going at the start and I had difficulty keeping track of the Chinese surnames. It's very much something for those who have a basic level of science and computing. I can't imagine a complete layman enjoying it - esp. in the first half. All that malarky about building XOR gates etc. Stuff I know about pretty well but only because all that fundamental logic and computing architecture was covered in my A level and degree. Anyhoo. The novel is based around a very nice idea. Has me properly hooked now.
EvilRedEye wrote:Was Ray Bradbury cancelled or am I thinking of someone else?
tigersgogrrr wrote:Loads more fantasy writers getting fucked on Twitter now. Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, Sam Sykes, Myke Cole...
Only Scott Lynch there being a proper Name, I guess.
davyK wrote:Gremill wrote:The series just gets better and better too, one of my all time favourites.Forgot I hadn't completed the Three Body Problem so back at that. Easier going now - I found it hard going at the start and I had difficulty keeping track of the Chinese surnames. It's very much something for those who have a basic level of science and computing. I can't imagine a complete layman enjoying it - esp. in the first half. All that malarky about building XOR gates etc. Stuff I know about pretty well but only because all that fundamental logic and computing architecture was covered in my A level and degree. Anyhoo. The novel is based around a very nice idea. Has me properly hooked now.
I feel cheated!!! Didn't know this was a series...OK I got it free as part of a Kindle Unlimited Trial - but still. Because it was on Kindle and has a part of the 2nd book I had no idea I was near the end - the book finished with the Kindle's progress meter showing 80%!!!!
Splendid book though and yeah - I'm in for the time being.
The science is a bit OTT for a novel though - quantum entanglement just got thrown in there when the Sophons were created. I know enough to keep engaged but a lot of people wouldn't. Not a mainstream thing for sure.
Or.
Chinese people are far more aware of science than Western dullards.
There's a thought.
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